{"id":361060,"date":"2025-12-20T19:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/361060\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:52:16","slug":"zach-charbonnet-on-two-point-conversion-i-had-no-idea-but-i-always-pick-up-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/361060\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Charbonnet on two-point conversion: I had no idea, but I always pick up the ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet couldn\u2019t have imagined he was making one of the biggest plays of this NFL season on Thursday night when he casually stepped into the end zone and picked up the football. But he\u2019s glad he did.<\/p>\n<p>Charbonnet scored a crucial two-point conversion in the Seahawks\u2019 comeback win over the Rams when a Sam Darnold pass hit a Ram\u2019s helmet, fell to the ground and rolled into the end zone, only for Charbonnet to pick it up in the end zone. Ruled on the field an incomplete forward pass, it was changed on replay to a backward pass, which means it was a live ball until someone took possession. That someone was Charbonnet.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Charbonnet said he didn\u2019t know how the ball ended up in the end zone but he figured it couldn\u2019t hurt to pick it up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no idea, but I\u2019m always taught to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/seahawks\/seahawks-make-franchise-history-with-three-two-point-conversions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pick up the ball<\/a>,\u201d Charbonnet said, via the Seattle Times.<\/p>\n<p>Every football player is taught that, from Pop Warner to the pros. But many players fail to do it in the moment. The Seahawks may end up as the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs because Charbonnet did what he was taught to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet couldn\u2019t have imagined he was making one of the biggest plays of this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-361060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}