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Colin Kaepernick blows Seahawks away with 58-yard run

Colin Kaepernick has befuddled Seattle's defense early on. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images) The Seattle Seahawks knew to watch out for Colin Kaepernick's
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Colin Kaepernick blows Seahawks away with 58-yard run
Colin Kaepernick blows Seahawks away with 58-yard run

Colin Kaepernick has befuddled Seattle's defense early on. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

The Seattle Seahawks knew to watch out for Colin Kaepernick's running ability in the NFC Championship Game, and the 49ers came out with several designed runs in the first quarter to keep Seattle's defense off-balance.

"I think the challenge is more of the fact that Colin Kaepernick is a guy that can throw and run," Seattle safety Kam Chancellor said this week. "I think that is a challenge for any defense when you get a quarterback who is double-headed, one that can throw and run at the same time. It keeps you a little off-balance and you have to be aware of him running the ball and him scrambling and throwing downfield. At the same time he has a good group of receivers and a tight end. I think Colin Kaepernick does a good job at keeping the ball alive and those guys get up field and try to get open."

Kaepernick showed exactly how dangerous he can be with 12:30 left in the first half, when he took off from his own 32-yard line, bobbing and weaving through Seattle's entire defense for a 58-yard run, the longest of Kaepernick's career, to the Seattle 10-yard line. Four player later, running back Anthony Dixon bulled it in for a one-yard touchdown run. It was the first touchdown of the day, and the 49ers took a 10-0 lead after the extra point.

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SI.com contributing NFL writer and Seattle resident Doug Farrar started writing about football locally in 2002, and became Football Outsiders' West Coast NFL guy in 2006. He was fascinated by FO's idea to combine Bill James with Dr. Z, and wrote for the site for six years. He wrote a game-tape column called "Cover-2" for a number of years, and contributed to six editions of "Pro Football Prospectus" and the "Football Outsiders Almanac." In 2009,  Doug was invited to join Yahoo Sports' NFL team, and covered Senior Bowls, scouting combines, Super Bowls, and all sorts of other things for Yahoo Sports and the Shutdown Corner blog through June, 2013. Doug received the proverbial offer he couldn't refuse from SI.com in 2013, and that was that. Doug has also written for the Seattle Times, the Washington Post, the New York Sun, FOX Sports, ESPN.com, and ESPN The Magazine.  He also makes regular appearances on several local and national radio shows, and has hosted several podcasts over the years. He counts Dan Jenkins, Thomas Boswell, Frank Deford, Ralph Wiley, Peter King, and Bill Simmons as the writers who made him want to do this for a living. In his rare off-time, Doug can be found reading, hiking, working out, searching for new Hendrix, Who, and MC5 bootlegs, and wondering if the Mariners will ever be good again.

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