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The Seahawks may draft a running back later this month, but the addition of a rookie likely wouldn’t do much to knock Thomas Rawls out of a prominent place in the backfield next season.

Rawls ran for 830 yards and averaged 5.6 yards per carry while filling in for an injured Marshawn Lynch last year. Lynch has since retired, of course, and Rawls’ success as a rookie is likely why he isn’t feeling any extra pressure to succeed in light of Lynch’s departure.

“I just go out there and work hard and do my job and have an amazing coaching staff and an amazing teammates to encourage me,” Rawls said on Q13 FOX, via the team’s website. “And also just my support back home. Just fighting through all types of adversity, I rise up and I rise to the occasion at times like this, so it’s no pressure.”

Rawls is recovering from a broken ankle and ligament damage, but seems equally unruffled about being ready to go for training camp. After saying last week that he’ll be running soon, Rawls said his “recovery is coming very quickly” and a full return to health would be a pressure reliever for everyone on the Seahawks offense.