Doug Baldwin was so, so open. Nothing but the blue and white turf underneath and around him as he slanted across the middle of the Seahawks’ end zone.
Except the 30-year-old undrafted wide receiver is 5-foot-10, and Russell Wilson’s throw assumed he was about 15-foot-10.
That would have been the first touchdown of the season for the Seahawks’ locker-room leader and one of the few familiar, pillar faces still on their roster after back-to-back Super Bowl trips. Baldwin entered the 10th game of the Seahawks’ season with zero TD catches – he led the NFL with 14 touchdowns in 2015 and had eight last year.