Immediately after Seattle Seahawks safety Earl Thomas left Sunday Night Football against the Carolina Panthers with a lower leg injury, Cam Newton took advantage, hitting wide receiver Ted Ginn, Jr. for a 55-yard touchdown.
Thomas Rawls will see Ted Ginn’s touchdown and raise it with one of his own
The Panthers and Seahawks traded touchdowns in less than a minute of play.
Jeanna Kelley has been covering the Falcons for The Falcoholic since 2011 and the NFL for SB Nation since 2015.
Carolina’s touchdown capped off a three-play drive that took one minute and 26 seconds off the clock.
Seahawks running back Thomas Rawls decided to answer with a touchdown of his own.
This was Rawls’s second touchdown of the evening, after he ran in an eight-yard score in the first quarter. The 45-yard run finished off a two-play, 57-yard series for Seattle that took all of 48 seconds.
Rawls’s touchdown gave the Seahawks a 17-7 lead, which they eventually extended to 23-7. The Seahawks converted on three field goal attempts in the first half. The first came after Derek Anderson, starting in place of Cam Newton after Newton was benched for breaking a minor team rule, threw an interception on his opening play of the game.
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