{"id":199866,"date":"2025-12-19T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/199866\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:56:09","slug":"nfl-seattle-seahawks-book-play-off-spot-with-overtime-win-over-los-angeles-rams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/199866\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: Seattle Seahawks book play-off spot with overtime win over Los Angeles Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Quarterback Sam Darnold threw two interceptions for Seattle but regrouped to make two touchdown passes, the second to star receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba in overtime, before adding the two-point conversion to clinch victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Rams led 13-7 at half-time before Kenneth Walker III burst through to run in a 55-yard touchdown for Seattle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rams cornerback Josh Wallace then returned Darnold&#8217;s first interception for 56 yards and Blake Corum barged in from a yard on the next play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford found Puka Nacua for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter to make it 30-14, but Rashid Shaheed gave Seattle hope by scoring with a 58-yard punt return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darnold then found AJ Barner in the end zone and Seattle added the two-point conversion to take the game to overtime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although Nacua then raced in for his second touchdown, Smith-Njigba replied to set up the game-winning score and finish with 96 receiving yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old leads the NFL with 1,541 receiving yards for the season, with Nacua second (1,367) after claiming a career-high 225 yards from 12 receptions on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterback Sam Darnold threw two interceptions for Seattle but regrouped to make two touchdown passes, the second to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-199866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}