PITTSBURGH -- One of the staples of coordinator Klint Kubiak's offense is getting his quarterback outside the pocket to make throws on the move. But on a key play in the Seattle Seahawks' 31-17 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday at Acrisure Stadium, that happened out of necessity, not by design.

Leading 24-17 with less than seven minutes to go, Darnold and the Seahawks faced a third-and-9 from their own 28, needing to move the chains if they didn't want to give Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers solid field position for a potential tying drive.

Seattle got the shotgun snap off with one second left on the play clock but failed to pick up blitzing linebacker Patrick Queen.

With Queen closing in, Darnold spun out of pressure, scrambled to his left and floated a throw back across his body over linebacker Payton Wilson to tight end AJ Barner for a 19-yard gain. A would-be sack instead resulted in a first down that helped Seattle put the game away.

"That's the guy that shows up on tape," coach Mike Macdonald said. "He's done it his whole career, and he's doing it for us. And a really heads-up play. AJ understood to uncover and get in the scramble drill. I thought that was a tremendous play. It really changed the tide of the game."

On the next snap, Kubiak dialed up a deep shot to Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and Seattle's No. 1 receiver hauled it in for a 43-yard gain. Three plays later, Kenneth Walker III sealed the win with a 19-yard touchdown run, getting the Seahawks back to even after their season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers.

Darnold threw two touchdown passes against Pittsburgh, but the scramble throw on third down was the quarterback's best play from Seattle's comeback win -- and perhaps the finest moment of his first two games as a Seahawk.