Seahawks banking on C.J. Prosise to make offense more dynamic

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RENTON, Wash. — On the last day of Seattle Seahawks rookie camp, when players broke up into their positional groups, third-round pick C.J. Prosise found himself among new peers: the wide receivers.

Prosise played running back at Notre Dame last year, but he was previously a wide receiver. And while coach Pete Carroll has been complimentary of all the rookies, his affection for Prosise over the weekend stood out.

“He is a guy that I fell in love with because when I went back and watched him play at receiver, he ran all of the routes,” Carroll said. “He was a regular receiver. He had 50 targets or something two years ago. He’s a natural football player at that position that became a running back. That’s really unusual that happens like that and that he would be so dynamic as a player at the running back spot.

“So going into this draft I was hoping that we would get this guy so we could do the things that we can do with him.”

Sometimes coaches are hesitant to specify roles for rookies so early, but that has not been …

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