Kenny
Mcintosh.
Kenny
Mcintosh.
Georgia· 6'0"· 204 lb· 4.62s 40
"The receiving package was never in question; the question was whether a back with no clean athletic profile and a career of shared carries could hold a job long enough for it to matter."Pre-draft read
Patient, upright zone runner who presses the line, lets his guard climb and then makes one decisive cut into the crease. Long strides eat ground once he is clean, and he shows enough contact balance to fall forward through arm tackles, but he builds speed rather than firing off the snap. Best on outside and mid zone, where he can bounce the read late instead of banging into traffic.
The receiving work is the separator. He aligns in the slot and out wide, runs option and wheel routes with real spacing feel, tracks the ball over either shoulder and catches away from his frame rather than trapping it. In protection he is willing and knows the pickup rules, meeting blitzers square, though he plays more with position than with pop.
Shanahan/McVay outside zone scheme, emphasizing one-cut downhill runners with receiving upside and adequate pass protection.
Rotational back with receiving duties Year 1, ceiling as a complementary 3rd down back within a committee.
Gap/power run scheme that prioritizes brute force, short-yardage conversions and powerful interior runs.
A solid, versatile back who can contribute in multiple phases within a zone scheme, but lacks the elite athleticism to be a true bell-cow.
Kenny McIntosh Georgia RB Highlights || Most Versatile RB In The Draft
Pre-draft reel leaning on the receiving usage that defined the evaluation.
Kenny McIntosh || Georgia Bulldogs Running Back || 2022 Senior Highlights
His lead-back season, with the zone reads and slot routes shown together.
Kenny McIntosh | College Highlights 2022
Second cut of the 2022 tape against SEC and playoff defenses.
He is a three-down role player rather than a lead back, and the value is in what he does on passing downs. A team is buying a back it can leave on the field on third down without tipping run, split into the slot against a linebacker, and trust to identify the free rusher. The runs will come in a zone system that lets him read the front and take one cut.
Context matters more than the raw yardage. Georgia rotated backs for four years, so he waited behind older players before finally getting the lead share in 2022, when he carried 150 times for 829 yards and 10 scores and added 43 catches for 504 yards. Those receiving numbers, not the carries, were the calling card, and they came against SEC and playoff defenses on two national championship teams. He was a complementary piece on great offenses, never the engine of one.
The flags were athletic and medical. He ran 4.62 and the jump and agility testing never came out, with a knee issue limiting his pre-draft work, so evaluators had no clean athletic profile to bet on. That, plus a committee resume that muddied the standalone projection in a deep back class, dropped him well below the round-five range he was mocked in. Seattle took him at 237, one of two backs it added that spring.
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Hands
Natural catcher who plucks away from his frame, adjusts to off-target throws and tracks the ball over either shoulder rather than waiting on it.
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Route feel
Runs real routes from the slot and out wide, with spacing awareness on options and wheels that linebackers struggle to match.
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Vision
Presses the line patiently on zone, lets the blocks develop in front of him and finds the crease without dancing behind the pads.
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Contact balance
Runs behind his pads through arm tackles and consistently falls forward, turning would-be losses into manageable second downs.
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Protection awareness
Understands the pickup rules, identifies the extra rusher quickly and meets blitzers square instead of drifting into them.
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Burst
Builds speed rather than hitting it, so the crease has to stay open a beat longer than it does for a true one-cut accelerator.
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Creation
Little independent yardage when the blocking breaks down; he needs the run to be schemed clean to produce anything explosive.
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Testing profile
No published jump or agility numbers and a 4.62 forty, leaving evaluators without evidence of the athleticism the role demands.
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Durability
A knee issue clouded the pre-draft process and injuries later erased two of his first three professional seasons entirely.
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| Yr | Team | G | Att | Yds | TD | Rec | RecYds |
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| 2019 | Georgia | — | 25 | 174 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | Georgia | — | 47 | 251 | 1 | 10 | 111 |
| 2021 | Georgia | — | 58 | 328 | 3 | 22 | 242 |
| 2022 | Georgia | — | 150 | 829 | 10 | 43 | 504 |
| Career | — | — | 280 | 1582 | 16 | 76 | 860 |
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Honors
- Two-time national champion at Georgia (2021, 2022)
- 2022 team leader in rushing (829 yards, 10 TD) and receptions (43)
A movable passing-down piece who earns a roster spot through third-down snaps and special teams, with carries only when the room thins out.
The ceiling if the receiving package fully translates: a back defenses have to cover in the slot and in the red zone, kept on the field for his routes rather than his carries.
A committee back whose college production does not survive the jump, bouncing between depth roles because there is no standalone trait to protect the job.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Opened his rookie year on injured reserve after a training-camp knee sprain, then played a full 2024 season as a rotational back in Seattle with 31 carries for 172 yards before a torn ACL in July 2025 wiped out that season. Seattle waived him from the physically unable to perform list in July 2026 and he cleared waivers unsigned.
The evaluation on him was always about role clarity. Nothing on the tape suggested a back who would carry an offense: he is not a creator in a phone booth, he does not run away from angles in the open field, and he needs the blocking to be clean before the big runs show up. What the tape did suggest was a back who never looked out of place on third down, which in a league that keeps shrinking the value of early-down carries is the part worth paying for.
The problem is that this profile has no cushion. A rotational passing-down back has to be available, and availability is exactly what he never got. A knee sprain in his first training camp put him on injured reserve to open his rookie year, he came back in 2024 as a depth piece and carried 31 times for 172 yards across a full season, and then a torn ACL in July 2025 cost him the entire year. Seattle waived him in July 2026 while he was still on the physically unable to perform list, and he cleared waivers unsigned. The skill was real and the market never got a healthy look at it.