ATLANTA (Interstat) — Sam Darnold passed for three touchdowns and the Seattle Seahawks scored 31 unanswered points to rout the Atlanta Falcons 37-9 on Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. After a sluggish first half ended with Seattle leading 6-3, Rashid Shaheed returned the second-half opening kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown to ignite the rout. Darnold then found Jaxon Smith-Njigba for two of his three scoring passes, finishing 20 of 30 for 249 yards. The Seahawks improved to 10-3, while the Falcons fell to 4-9. Kirk Cousins managed just 162 passing yards for Atlanta, which saw its only points come from three Zane Gonzalez field goals before a crowd of 68,721.