Jacobs caps 300-yard game with walk-off TD

SEATTLE -- Josh Jacobs wasn't definite he'd play Sunday until astir 2 hours earlier kickoff. The Las Vegas Raiders' fourth-year moving backmost had to trial retired the near calf helium tweaked successful a noncontact drill successful Friday practice.

And aft helium reaggravated it precocious successful regularisation connected the Lumen Field artificial turf -- "It doesn't give," helium said -- the Raiders coaching unit wanted to beryllium him for the remainder of the game.

"I benignant of convinced them I could go," Jacobs said. "And, you know, the biggest play of the crippled happened aft that."

Jacobs burst done a large spread connected the close broadside of the enactment and was gone, untouched, for a walk-off 86-yard touchdown tally with 4 minutes, 20 seconds to play successful the other play to springiness the Raiders a 40-34 overtime win against the Seattle Seahawks.

As such, Jacobs finished with franchise single-game records for all-purpose yards (303) and rushing (229). He besides became conscionable the 4th subordinate successful the Super Bowl epoch to decorativeness with astatine slightest 300 all-purpose yards and 2 TDs successful a game, joining Stephone Paige (1985), Priest Holmes (2002) and Adrian Peterson (2007).

"That mentality that [Jacobs] brings and that mindset, the mode helium runs and the mode he, implicit and implicit and implicit again, is finishing, moving done people, he's ever finishing forward," said Raiders backmost Derek Carr, who celebrated his 13th vocation walk-off triumph Sunday, the 3rd astir of immoderate starting backmost since 1950, down lone Drew Brees (21) and Ben Roethlisberger (14).

"Him bringing that mindset, man, however hard he's worked, each those things, I said it astatine the opening of the twelvemonth ... the happiest idiosyncratic successful the building, too me, is Josh Jacobs. And we're seeing the fruits of that now."

Jacobs, a first-round draught prime of the Raiders retired of Alabama successful 2019, did not person his fifth-year enactment picked up this offseason by Las Vegas' caller authorities of wide manager Dave Ziegler and manager Josh McDaniels. And Jacobs, a Pro Bowler successful 2020, is having his finest play yet.

With six games remaining successful this declaration year, helium is already up to 1,159 rushing yards, the fifth-highest full successful franchise history, trailing Marcus Allen (1,759 successful 1985), Napoleon Kaufman (1,294 successful 1997), Mark van Eeghen (1,273 successful 1977) and Allen (1,168 successful 1984).

And with his 3rd 1,000-yard rushing season, Jacobs has tied Allen and van Eeghen for astir specified seasons successful Raiders history.

Seahawks manager Pete Carroll said immoderate of Jacobs' accumulation was a relation of each the attraction Seattle paid to Raiders All-Pro receiver Davante Adams, who had been connected a teardrop with 413 receiving yards and 5 TDs successful his past 3 games but finished with 7 catches for 74 yards successful Seattle.

"We didn't tackle [Jacobs] arsenic good arsenic we needed to," Carroll said, "and we didn't strategy it arsenic good arsenic we needed to."

McDaniels, meanwhile, said helium was "running retired of superlatives" to picture his moving back.

"He's a shot player," McDaniels said. "I mean, that's astir apt the top compliment I could springiness him, and helium comes up big.

"It's not conscionable what helium does connected the field; it's however helium practices, what helium does successful preparation, however attentive helium is successful the meetings, what he's similar successful the walk-throughs, however overmuch helium wants to win. He wants to win. He does everything helium tin to assistance us."

For the Raiders, who improved to 4-7 with their archetypal triumph successful Seattle since 1998, it was their 2nd consecutive OT triumph connected a walk-off touchdown. They are conscionable the 3rd squad to execute that feat since the NFL instituted OT successful 1974, on with the 2017 Green Bay Packers and the 2001 Chicago Bears.

In overtime connected Sunday, the Raiders got the shot archetypal and attempted a 56-yard tract extremity that was wide right. The Seahawks past went three-and-out and punted, mounting up Jacobs' tally from the Raiders' 14-yard enactment connected archetypal down. It was 3 days shy of the 35th day of Bo Jackson's circuit de unit astatine the aged Seattle Kingdome, erstwhile his 221-yard rushing time included a 91-yard TD tally into the tunnel.

"I noticed fractional of the defence was looking astatine Mack [Hollins] due to the fact that helium didn't cognize what helium was doing connected the play, lining up," Jacobs laughed, referring to the Raiders receiver. "He was like, 'What's the play?' I said, 'Line up!'

"When I deed the gap, I seen [fullback Jakob Johnson] get a large artifact and I conscionable seen a large hole, and I conscionable tried to tally arsenic accelerated arsenic I can."

Told the sound connected him was that helium didn't person breakaway speed, Jacobs paused.

"It's each astir angles," helium said softly earlier laughing. "It's each astir angles."

A week earlier, Jacobs was giggling arsenic helium told a newsman astir however caller helium felt, the champion his assemblage had felt this precocious successful a play successful his career.

"No bruises, nary contusions," helium said astatine the time. "Weird."

In Seattle, arsenic helium limped astir the locker room, helium smiled again.

"I jinxed it," helium said arsenic helium tapped connected his woody cubbyhole.

"It's conscionable a small injury. Ain't thing crazy. Nothing that I deliberation that's going to acceptable maine back, but thing that I decidedly got to instrumentality attraction of."

ESPN's Brady Henderson contributed to this report.