Zach Charbonnet holds the RB · Starter spot in Seattle Seahawks’s running back room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Zach Charbonnet played 17 games in 2025 with a 46% snap share.

Zach Charbonnet is a running back for the Seattle Seahawks who was selected 52nd overall in the 2023 NFL Draft. The 6'1", 220-pound back played college football at UCLA and Michigan, recording 3,422 rushing yards and 39 touchdowns across 40 games. In 2024, he appeared in all 17 games with six starts, accumulating 569 rushing yards and nine total touchdowns while filling in for an injured Kenneth Walker III. During the 2025 season, Charbonnet set career highs with 189 carries for 750 rushing yards and 12 rushing touchdowns in 16 regular season games, becoming Seattle's first player since Marshawn Lynch in 2014 to record double-digit rushing touchdowns in a season. He was placed on injured reserve on 01/23/26 with a knee injury.

Michigan2019 – 2020

UCLA2021 – 2022

Seahawks2023 — present

CollegeUCLA; MichiganDraftRound 2 · No. 52 overall · 2023 · SEAHometownCamarillo, CA