With rookie Kenneth Walker III rushing for 168 yards and two touchdowns and Marquise Goodwin scoring two, the Seattle Seahawks beat the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday after taking a 17-point lead in the first quarter. We beat them 37-23.
Jenno Smith completed 20 of 27 passes for 210 yards and two touchdowns, his fifth multi-TD game of the season. Jason Myers added his three field goals (4-3) to the Seahawks, who led at half his game in the NFC West as he won 4-3.
Seattle led 17–0 late in the first quarter, their largest lead 15 minutes later since their victory over New Orleans in Week 13 of 2013. It was the Seahawks’ biggest loading lead at the end of the first quarter since 2000.
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It was the third straight week that the Chargers (4-3) trailed double digits in the first quarter. They rallied against Cleveland and Denver, but couldn’t pull it off this time, going on a three-game winning streak. LA is now one game behind Kansas City in the AFC West.
Justin Herbert threw 50 or more passes in consecutive games for the second time in his career, throwing 33 of 51 for 293 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. Austin Ekeler has 127 scrimmage for his yards (96 yards receiving, 31 yards rushing) and he has scored two touchdowns, and in the last three games he has scored eight.
Mike Williams added seven receptions for 86 yards and a TD.
Walker took over when Seattle started running back after Rashard Penney suffered a season-ending ankle injury two weeks earlier. Five plays after Ryan Neal picked Herbert, Walker pulled 12 yards from the left guard to extend the Seahawks’ lead to 14-0, with him 4:17 in the first quarter. It was left.
The second round pick started the game in the fourth quarter and sprinted the right sideline 74 yards to make it 37-16.
Both JC Jackson and DK Metcalfe leave Seahawks and Chargers games with knee injuries
It was Goodwin’s first multi-TD game since 2018 when he was with the San Francisco 49ers. Goodwin said in his first season with the Seahawks, he had six catches for 79 yards by the time he entered the game, but his DK Metcalfe was sidelined with a knee injury in the first quarter. , Tyler increased the time after his rocket was maxed out with a hamstring strain.
Goodwin beat Asante Samuel Jr. in coverage midway through the first quarter and hit a 20-yard pass into the right corner of the end zone to give Seattle a 7–0 lead.
The Seahawks extended their lead to 24–14 with 1:40 left in the first half when Goodwin edged JC Jackson for a 23-yard score.
Los Angeles came within 17-14 for touchdowns on back-to-back drives. Ekeler had a 7-yard run and Williams caught a 13-yard pass from Herbert to pull the Chargers inside a field goal with 9:43 left in the second quarter.
The Chargers secured their first safety since the end of the 2020 season when Sebastian Joseph Day and Troy Rieder beat Walker in the end zone early in the fourth to stay within 27-16.
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Injury
Seahawks: LB Nick Velor and OG Phil Haynes suffered concussions in the second half. … DT Pune his Ford suffered a foot injury in the first quarter and did not return.
Chargers: CB JC Jackson injured his knee on Goodwin’s second touchdown. He was put on an air cast and transported in a cart. … LB Chris Rumpf II suffered a hip/knee injury in the fourth quarter. … Williams was out in the fourth quarter with an ankle injury.
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Seahawks: New York Giants next Sunday.
Chargers: Say goodbye next week and move on to play in Atlanta on November 6th.