Marshawn Lynch's top Beast Mode moments

In a league of boisterous personalities, Marshawn Lynch was an eccentric standout from the norm. He shied away from reporters, at timesvisibly uncomfortable around them, and tried to keepalow profile off the field. The 215-pound running backsnacked on Skittles on the sidelines during games and warmed up wearinga strange Bane-style mask, which heclaimed was to simulate high-altitude environments.

But Lynch was an invaluable asset in helping the Seattle Seahawks to the team's first ever Super Bowl title in 2014, and while hechased privacy off the field, he more than made up for withattention-grabbing plays andantics on it.

The running back was picked in the first round of the 2007 draft by the Buffalo Bills, but he hadalready coined what would become anickname throughout his NFL career: Beast Mode. He used the term to describe his play style to a reporter at a pre-draft combine.

These are some of ourfavourite Marshawn Lynch moments.

Injury cart ride

PlayingcollegefootballattheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,afterawinovertheWashingtonHuskies,Lynch commandeereda cart used to wheel injured players off the field, taking it for a joyride.

Skittles endorsement

Lynch was known for eating skittles on the sidelines during games andat press conferences. Eventually, in 2014, the company came around and signed an official endorsement deal with the running back, ponying-up some cash for what had previously been free advertising. The deal also came with a pair of Skittles-patterned cleats for Lynch and led toone of his more jovial press conferences.

'I'm just here so I won't get fined'

Through the 2014/15 season, Lynch became embattled in a strangetug of war with the press, refusing to answer questions, at one point being fined $100,000 US, and rarely giving reporters answers longer than a few words.

This went on week after week before culminating atthe 2015 Super Bowl media daywhere he answered every question with a variation of the now-famous line "I'm just here so I won't get fined."

Marshawn Lynch stonewalls reporters at Super Bowl Media Day

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Seattle running back gives same answer to each question.

Mortal Kombat showdown

In a stroke of marketing genius, someone convinced Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots and Lynch to sit down with ConanO'Briendaysbefore they were set to playthe 2015 Super Bowl and test out the then-unreleased Mortal Kombat X.

Bane mask

Further stretching the Beast Mode moniker, towards the end of his career Lynch got in the habit of wearing astrange altitude mask during pre-gamewarmups.

His Beast Mode running

Beyond all of this, Lynch will be remembered as one of the best running backs to play the game because he was very, very good at it, becoming known for his strengthandbreaking multipletackles in single runs.

His most memorable run, referred to as Beast Quake, saw him break a string of nine tackles during the 2011 NFC wild card game against the New Orleans Saints. The crowd at CenturyLink Field in Seattle became so rowdy after the play it caused a small spike in a nearby seismograph.