NASHVILLE—A week after his worst game as a Seahawk, Sam Darnold bounced back with a big performance to help lead the Seahawks to a 30-24 win over the Titans.

It was an outcome that surprised precisely no one who has been around the Seahawks quarterback and watched him work this season.

Darnold, who threw four interceptions in last week's loss to the Rams, threw for 244 yards and two touchdowns—both of them to Jaxon Smith-Njigba—giving him a 118.1 passer rating, his seventh game in the last nine with a ratting of 111.4 or better. And it was Darnold's 63-yard touchdown to Smith-Njigba early in the second quarter, another perfectly thrown deep ball in a season full of them, that helped spark Seattle's offense.

"Actually, he was a spark for us," Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald said. "The big

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