Champions Seahawks beat Patriots in season opener

Defending champions the Seattle Seahawks came from down to bushed the New England Patriots 13-10 successful the opening crippled of the NFL season.

For the archetypal clip successful 10 years the play began with a rematch of the Super Bowl, successful which the Patriots were dominated by a Seahawks defence known arsenic 'the Dark Side'.

Again they stepped up aft Seattle mislaid backmost Sam Darnold to a hep wounded successful the game's opening drive, claiming 3 interceptions successful the last 4th astatine Lumen Field.

The Patriots went into a 10-0 lead, with rookie choky extremity Eli Raridon scoring the archetypal touchdown of the play successful the 2nd quarter.

Back-up backmost Drew Lock got the Seattle offence going precocious successful the 3rd quarter, with Jason Myers cutting the spread with a tract goal.

Seahawks cornerback Nehemiah Pritchett claimed his archetypal vocation interception astatine the commencement of the 4th quarter, aft a Drake Maye walk was deflected by rookie Rodney Thomas.

On the adjacent possession Lock recovered wide reciever Jaxon Smith-Njigba successful abstraction and past season's violative subordinate of the twelvemonth charged done the Patriots defence for a 45-yard touchdown.

Julian Love past picked disconnected Patriots backmost Maye, giving Myers the accidental to borderline the Seahawks successful beforehand with a 26-yard tract goal.

New England were good wrong field-goal scope with 21 seconds remaining, but chose to spell for the triumph alternatively than settee for overtime, and the determination backfired arsenic Maye's hopeful walk towards Mack Hollins was intercepted by Josh Jobe successful the extremity zone.

The lone crippled successful which Maye threw aggregate interceptions past play was the Super Bowl, and helium was picked disconnected connected the Patriots' last 3 possessions successful the play opener.

Seattle caput manager Mike Macdonald said archetypal tests showed Darnold had not fractured a hip.

Week 1 continues with the NFL's archetypal regular-season crippled successful Australia. The Los Angeles Rams conscionable the San Francisco 49ers successful Melbourne connected Thursday (01:35 BST, Friday).