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Eric Williams
NFC West Writer
The stats are both representative of where the Seattle Seahawks stand with one regular-season game remaining and also embarrassing for a Pete Carroll-led defense.
Since Week 11, the Seahawks have allowed a league-worst 1,102 rushing yards and a league-high 13 rushing touchdowns.
The Pittsburgh Steelers were certainly aware of those numbers, which is why they leaned on the 1-2 punch of running backs Najee Harris and Jaylen Warren to carry the team to a 30-23 victory over the Seahawks at Lumen Field on Sunday.
Harris finished with 122 rushing yards and two scores while Warren added 75 yards and a score. Pittsburgh rushed for 202 rushing yards and finished with a season-high 468 total yards against Seattle’s defense.
According to Next Gen Stats, Harris gained 118 of his rushing yards after contact, the second-most in a game in his career.
The Seahawks dropped to 8-8 with the loss, and now need to beat the Arizona Cardinals next week on the road, along with getting some help from other teams to make the playoffs for a second straight year.
The Steelers improved to 9-7 on the season and remain in the AFC playoff hunt heading into the final week of the regular season. The Steelers clinched their 20th consecutive season with a .500 or better record, leaving them one year shy of matching the longest stretch of its kind in NFL history.
Pittsburgh is 8-2 in one-score games this season.
Last offseason, Carroll and the Seahawks made moves in the draft and free agency to improve the team defensively. And while at times those moves have proved fruitful, Seattle has regressed down the backstretch. Now with their season on the line, the Seahawks will face one of the best running teams in the league next week in the Cardinals.
“The principles that we stand for and teach, we’re going to come back to them again and see if we can pull it together,” Carroll told reporters after the game.
On Sunday, the…
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