The Seattle Seahawks’ recent trade for San Diego’s Rashid Shaheed has indeed perked up their Super Bowl chances.

Shaheed’s 100-yard kickoff return Sunday made Atlanta Falcons defenders look sedated.

The former football and track star with Mt. Carmel High School in Rancho Penasquitos caught the second-half kickoff, darted through a pod of Falcons and jetted to the end zone.

The touchdown broke a 6-6 tie; Seattle then rolled, winning 37-9.

Shaheed’s thunderclap recalled Percy Harvin’s Super Bowl touchdown that I brought up last month, in praising Seahawks talent man John Schneider for getting Shaheed from the New Orleans Saints.

Twelve years ago, Harvin took the second-half kickoff 87 yards on a carpeted field in New Jersey. The touchdown fueled Seattle’s rout of the Denver Broncos in S

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