LITTLE ROCK — 3:30 p.m. Central, Fox LINE - Seahawks by 1 1/2 LAST MEETING Washington beat Seattle 23-17 on Nov. 27 2011.
LAST WEEK Seattle beat St. Louis 20-13. Washington beat Dallas 28-18.
RANKINGS Seahawks: offense (17), defense (4); Redskins: offense (5), defense (28) NOTES Seattle has won 5 consecutive, outscoring opponents 193-60. Washington has NFC-best 7-game winning streak, outscoring teams 210-140, and is first team since Jacksonville in 1996 to reach playoffs after starting 3-6. Seahawks are in playoffs for seventh time in 10 seasons, while Washington is in postseason for just fourth time in 20 years. Seahawks have lost 8 consecutive road playoff games. Their only road playoff victory came in first postseason road game, Dec. 31, 1983 at Miami. Streak is second longest in NFL behind Detroit. This will be second playoff game in NFL history with 2 starting rookie QBs, Seattle’s Russell Wilson vs. Washington’s Robert Griffin III. Last year, T.J. Yates led Houston to 31-10 victory over Andy Dalton and Cincinnati. Griffin (102.4) and Wilson (100) had best single-season rookie passer ratings in NFL history. Wilson’s rating was also the best overall in Seahawks history, bettering Matt Hasselbeck’s 98.2 in 2005 when Seattle reached Super Bowl. Wilson threw 26 TD passes, tying Peyton Manning’s NFL rookie record set in 1998. Game also features 2 of league’s top 3 rushers: Washington rookie Alfred Morris finished second with franchise-record 1,613 yards. Seattle’s Marshawn Lynch ranked third with career-high 1,590 yards. Seahawks ran NFL-high 55 percent of time. Redskins were second at 52.2 percent.
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