Seahawks QB Darnold exits season opener with hip injury after just five snaps

Five plays into the NFL season, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold — the man who carried a franchise to a Super Bowl just months ago — left Lumen Field on a limp, the victim of an ordinary sack that landed in an extraordinary way. What the game giveth in triumph, it can reclaim without ceremony; the same sport that elevated Darnold to champion now places his season in the hands of medical staff and uncertain timelines. In his absence, backup Drew Lock inherits a roster built for something larger, and a city that had only just begun to celebrate.