Seattle Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor is a pretty special athlete, so Seattle used a special field-goal block with him at the end of the first half of Saturday night's game against the Carolina Panthers.
The plan was for Chancellor to time his jump, leap over the snapper and then have a free path to the kicker. And it worked, twice.
Well, it worked in that Chancellor got over the line cleanly, leaping right over the center at the snap and landing on the other side. Somehow, he didn't block either kick.
It didn't matter in the end. The first kick, which was good, was nullified due to a false start. The second one wasn't good, but Chancellor ran into the kicker for a penalty. The third attempt, Chancellor didn't try his leap, and the field goal was good to end the half.
Former NFL vice president of officiating said there was a call for running into the kicker because Chancellor didn't get a piece of the kick. Had he blocked it, there would have been no call.
Neither of Chancellor's leaps counted, but they were pretty impressive.
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