If price is right and he’s healthy, Lynch could fit nicely for Raiders

Let’s just start this right with the most realistic stuff and then get to the gauzier, giddier aspects a little later in the item.

Obviously there are some complications with the idea of Marshawn Lynch possibly un-retiring and ending up with the Raiders in either a trade with Seattle or after Seattle releases him.

Raiders broadcaster Greg Papa teased on his radio show Thursday that the Raiders “are talking to a certain running back.” Later, it came out that Lynch was the certain back.

First: Yes, Seattle still has his rights. That might not be a huge hurdle, but it’s the first one.

At some point, Lynch and the Raiders — even if they’re ready to join up — have to see what the Seahawks will do if Lynch announces he is unretiring. It’s possible Seattle will try to hold onto him to see if the Raiders will trade for him.

Second: Is Lynch absolutely sure he wants to come out of retirement and get hit hundreds of more times? He seems to be enjoying his retired life quite immensely.

Third: The Raiders don’t have a ton of salary-cap room to carve out for a 30-year-old running back — even a probable future Hall of Famer and revered Oakland and Cal product — because they know they’ve got monster negotiations upcoming with Derek Carr and Khalil Mack.

Also: Lynch didn’t play at all last season, was hurt for much of 2015, and the NFL is not often kind to older running backs who averaged a career-low 3.8 yards per carry the last time they did play.

I would caution Raiders fans that, even if they acquire Lynch, he is not likely to dominate the league in 2017 the way he did, say, in 2012, when he was 25.

Great player. But all expectation levels should be kept reasonable. Just want to point that out.

All of this talk is surging after Papa’s radio show and then ESPN reporting that the Raiders are seriously considering the move.

There has been no real word about the Seahawks’ thoughts here, so that’s another caution.

But if the Raiders can get him for a reasonable price, Lynch would be a fascinating story for 2017, no doubt, and possibly an electrifying situational offensive weapon for a team that just decided it would let Latavius Murray sign with Minnesota.

They already have the two young, small backs — DeAndre Washington and Jalen Richard — and added Cordarrelle Patterson, who has seen time in the backfield during his NFL career.

The Raiders were mainly a passing team last season and will always be most dangerous when Carr is flinging it to Amari Cooper and others, but Murray’s largest value to the Raiders last season was in shortyardage and especially the goal-line.

And Jack Del Rio is always going to want to run the ball with power. That’s one of the reasons Bill Musgrave isn’t the offensive coordinator any more.

Could Lynch jump right into the goal-line power role? Seventy-four career TDs says he probably could, at least for as long as his body holds up.

If the Raiders are thinking of Lynch as a specialist — not as a 25-carry guy, but maybe 12 carries plus three or four catches — who can work off Carr and that great power offensive line, then you get a sense of the practical possibilities here.

It’s worth a flier if Lynch wants this, and, yes, we all know that he is a proud son of Oakland and probably has daydreamed about wearing the Silver & Black his whole life.

If he can accept a moderate contract, if Seattle lets him go, or trades him for very little, then Marshawn Lynch is worth some amount of excitement.

ELAINE THOMPSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Broadcaster Greg Papa hinted on his radio show that the Raiders are interested in bringing Marshawn Lynch, left, out of retirement.