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Lynch Hopes to Regain 'Beast Mode' in Seattle

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As much as Buffalo must have become a foreign land to former first-round pick Marshawn Lynch(notes), Seattle seemed to feel like home for the 24-year-old running back. After four years of losing records, his own problems with the law, an entirely new front office and coaching staff, "home games" in Toronto, and a franchise that has become the poster child for the small-market side of the next Collective Bargaining Agreement, it was time for Lynch to find a change of scenery. The Bills seemed to sign off on this notion when they selected Clemson running back C.J. Spiller(notes) in the first round of the 2010 draft, leaving Lynch as the odd man out.

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