Drake Maye Throws Three Fourth-Quarter Interceptions as Seahawks Rally to Beat Patriots 13-10

Sam Darnold's hip injury five snaps into Wednesday night's opener left Seattle without its starting quarterback for the rest of the game. The Seahawks won anyway, beating the New England Patriots 13-10 at Lumen Field behind backup Drew Lock and a Patriots quarterback who couldn't get out of his own way in the fourth quarter.

Drake Maye, last season's MVP runner-up who led New England to Super Bowl LX, threw three interceptions in the final period. The last one ended the game. On third-and-5 with New England in position to at least force overtime with a field goal, Maye rolled right under pressure and lofted a pass toward Mack Hollins in the end zone. Seahawks cornerback Josh Jobe undercut it, contorted his body to keep both feet inbounds, and sealed the win.

"I was trying to get rid of it, and I realized Mack was back there in the back and I didn't put enough on it to get it out," Maye said after the game, according to Fox13 Seattle. "It was unacceptable."

Maye finished 23-of-33 for 178 yards with one touchdown, a 2-yard pass to rookie tight end Eli Raridon in the first half. The three picks in the fourth quarter—the first two by Nehemiah Pritchett and Julian Love—turned a 10-0 New England lead into a Seattle win. Pritchett's interception set up Lock's 45-yard touchdown pass to Jaxon Smith-Njigba on fourth-and-1, tying the game. Love's interception on the ensuing New England drive set up Jason Myers' 26-yard field goal that put Seattle ahead for good, 13-10.

Lock, who threw all of three passes last season according to the Associated Press account carried by CBS News and The Independent, went 16-of-22 for 187 yards with a touchdown and no turnovers in relief of Darnold. Smith-Njigba, last year's Offensive Player of the Year, caught eight of his eleven targets for 122 yards, including the game-changing touchdown.

Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald credited his team's composure through three quarters of stagnant offense. "We didn't panic. We still liked our plan," Macdonald said, according to Fox13 Seattle. "We just wanted to stick to what we were doing, and the guys were just really excited to go back out there and play."

On Darnold, Macdonald said initial testing showed no fracture in the injured hip, calling that news "positive," though he said more testing would be needed to determine the full severity, according to The Athletic's live coverage for The New York Times.

New England's night got worse beyond the turnovers. Wide receiver A.J. Brown, acquired in an offseason trade with the Philadelphia Eagles, left the game in the third quarter with an ankle injury that Patriots superfan Dave Portnoy, in a video posted to X and reported by the New York Post, called "pretty severe." Portnoy also ripped New England's fourth-quarter collapse as "F-minus s--t," singling out a drop by free-agent addition Romeo Doubs on the same series that preceded one of Maye's interceptions.

Fox News and its syndicated version on WFMD both framed the loss around Maye's decision-making, calling his final throw a "terrible decision" that "gifts" Seattle the win. On the field, Seattle's offense came close to costing the Seahawks the game outright. Lock and the Seattle offense were held to a single field goal through three quarters before the defense manufactured the turnovers that flipped the outcome.

The loss drops New England to 0-1 to open the season, a repeat of the outcome that ended their 2025 campaign against the same opponent in Super Bowl LX. It was the third Week 1 Super Bowl rematch in NFL history, following Denver's 2016 win over Carolina after that season's title, according to the Associated Press account run by CBS News.

The Patriots now have two injury situations to monitor heading into Week 2: Brown's ankle and whatever fallout comes from Maye's meeting with coach Mike Vrabel and offensive coaches this week over the turnovers. Seattle, meanwhile, will wait on further imaging to determine how long Darnold might be out and whether Lock, who was efficient but unspectacular for three quarters before the fourth-quarter breakthrough, becomes the starter for an extended stretch.