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Darnold's backward pass in Rams-Seahawks game contrasts with Goff play due to no defender contact.

Darnold's backward pass in last year's Rams-Seahawks game is cited as a contrasting example to the Goff-Young play; Darnold threw the ball backward but was not hit while throwing, so under NFL rules it would have been ruled a backward pass (fumble) if he had been hit during the throw, but because he was not hit, the backward pass stood as thrown.

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