Seahawks Rookie Rylie Mills Channeled Marshawn Lynch on His Super Bowl Sack

When explaining the play to ESPN's Brady Henderson after the game, Mills channeled Seahawks legend Marshawn Lynch's famous "Run through a motherf----- face" quote with his own version.

"Yeah, I just ran through his face and then got to the quarterback," Mills said, per Henderson. "I told myself last night, ‘No more thinking, just go.’ … I got in that moment, and I just said I’m going to go and let it rip.

“To be honest, that’s my brand, I’m going to run through your face. When I came in here, that’s what I told everyone I’m going to do. In the biggest moment, I wanted to do it as much as I could.”

Mills didn't even appear in a game until Week 15. Once he did start playing, he wasn't a big contributor along a Seahawks defensive front that has emerged as the best in the league. Mills played a total of 28 defensive snaps in the regular season.

In the Super Bowl, Mills played just five snaps, but that's all he needed to account for one of Seattle's six sacks — showing his potential as a future playmaker in Mike Macdonald's defense.

Mills, as you'd expect, was overjoyed to go from being injured in college to winning a Super Bowl in just over a year. It was even better that he had a major impact in the game.

"I wasn’t even walking a year ago, so this is insane," Mills said. "It’s a testament to the coaching staff and to the training staff … all the people, our trainers at Notre Dame, everyone that helped me out. I couldn’t believe it and it got me to this point."