Former Michigan safety seals game for Seattle on last play against Patriots

The former Michigan football safety made the game-saving play for the Seattle Seahawks.

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There were a lot of former Wolverines partaking in the NFL’s Sunday night matchup between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks.

And multiple Wolverines made big plays — ahem, Chase Winovich — but the biggest came on the final play of the game.

On the road, down five with just three seconds remaining, the Patriots had the ball on the two-yard line and brought in a jumbo package with former Michigan right guard Michael Onwenu on the left side of the line and a tight end on the other side of him. But the Seahawks had an answer: his former Detroit (MI) Cass Tech and Michigan teammate Lano Hill.

Hill, a safety, saved the game for Seattle, as he went low, taking out the tight end and eventually QB Cam Newton, who kept the ball — a play that had been unstoppable up until that point.

It might have been a Wolverine-on-Wolverine crime — albeit, not directly — but with both teams having two active players who played in Ann Arbor, at least two former maize and blue left the game happy.