SEATTLE – Isaiah Simmons began his college football career at Clemson University in 2017 and from then until late in the fourth quarter on Sunday, he had played in 116 games without once lining up on the field goal block team.

But with Seattle's Jason Myers about to attempt a 47-yard field goal that would have tied the score, Simmons trotted onto the field to execute a play the Giants had hardly ever worked on.

"I've only practiced it once," Simmons said. "So, that was my second live rep."

It would be the NFL season's biggest understatement to say he made the most of it. Simmons jumped through a gap between long-snapper Chris Stoll and left guard Laken Tomlinson, Myers' kick caromed off his left arm, and the ball bounced to wide receiver Bryce Ford-Wheaton, who returned it 60 yards for the touchdown that iced the Giants' 29-20 victory against the Seahawks in Lumen Field.

"I said today I was going to block a punt or field goal, one of the two" Simmons said. "I didn't know which one, but it was going to be one of them."

With time running out, a punt was out of the question. So Simmons alerted Ford-Wheaton about what was coming.

"I said, 'Be prepared to scoop, because it's getting blocked,'" Simmons said. "'See that ball off wherever it hits, just see it off. I promise it's getting blocked. So, just be ready to scoop.' He was more than ready to scoop from what I've seen. I'm happy for BFW. Good for him."

Ford-Wheaton scored the first time he touched the ball in an NFL game.

"We know Zay is a freak athlete who has the ability to make those game changing plays," Ford-Wheaton said of Simmons. "He jumped right over the line. I didn't even look back to see if he blocked it. I just knew he was going to. The ball landed right in my hands and the rest is kind of history. I was looking at the Jumbotron and nobody was really chasing me. So, I might as well just go ahead and put it in the end zone. It was just a great team play."

And the Giants improved to 2-3 thanks to a tremendous team effort, though they played without leading rusher Devin Singletary (groin injury) and wide receiver Malik Nabers (concussion), who had combined for five of the team's six touchdowns entering the game. Despite their absence, the Giants gained a season-high 420 yards and had a 100-yard rusher and 100-yard receiver in the same game for the first time since Dec. 15, 2019. Rookie Tyrone Tracy ran for 129 yards on 18 carries and Darius Slayton gained 122 yards on eight receptions, despite essentially filling in for Nabers on the side of the field where he normally doesn't line up.

"It's basically opposite for me," Slayton said. "Where I'm used to going, I'm going the other way. Just trying to do my best to remember that. I definitely went the wrong way a time or two. I got it together. I was able to do decent today."

Tracy had totaled 29 yards on 12 carries in the season's first four games.

"I have to give a shout out to our O-line and to D.J. (quarterback Daniel Jones)," Tracy said. "I was telling the O-line, keep going, keep going, because at a certain point, their D-line is going to get tired. I just feel like today we kept doing it, kept doing it and at the end of the day, O-line went out there and did a better job than their D-line."

Jones also played a terrific game, completing 23 of 34 passes for 257 yards and touchdown throws of seven yards to Wan'Dale Robinson and 30 yards to Slayton. It was the third game this season in which he threw for two touchdowns without an interception and had a passer rating of at least 100.0 (season best 109.6).

The defense sacked Seattle quarterback Geno Smith seven times, including a career-high 3.0 by Dexter Lawrence and 2.0 by D.J. Davidson, the first full sacks of his career. Brian Burns had a big fourth-down sack of Smith early in the fourth quarter.

Greg Joseph kicked three field goals for the Giants.

For the second time in three games, the Giants created adversity early in the game. In Cleveland, Eric Gray fumbled the opening kickoff, and the Browns threw a touchdown pass on their first offensive play. But the Giants rallied to win, 20-15.

Sunday, on the 16^th play of their first possession, Gray was ruled to have lost the ball just shy of the goal line on fourth down. Rayshawn Jenkins grabbed it and ran 102 yards for a touchdown, the longest ever fumble recovery return vs. the Giants. The Seahawks also scored on two Myers field goals and Smith's 5-yard touchdown pass to Jaxon Smith-Njigba with 2:09 remaining that lifted Seattle to within 23-20.

After a Giants punt, the Seahawks took possession at their own 34-yard line. Smith immediately gained 32 yards on a run up the right side. Four plays later, Myers was summoned to try to tie the game. But the Giants had a plan for such a scenario.

"I think it was Tuesday, Ghobi (special teams coordinator Michael Ghobrial) brought that play up to me," coach Brian Daboll said. "He talked about who he thought would be a good candidate to do the jump. Isaiah came to mind. He executed perfectly."

What did they see that led them to believe the play would work?

"You put a lot of trust in your assistants," Daboll said. "Ghobi showed me a few clips. And we held it, too. I kept asking for it during the game. I thought we probably had a chance and Ghobi was like, I just want to set it up, one more, one more. There is risk-reward, because if you get a penalty, then it's first down for the offense. I thought Ghobi did a good job setting up the rush. Called it at the perfect time. Then, Isaiah is over there before the play practicing get-offs and what he's doing, so he was prepared to go. We had Dexter in there. Well-executed play. Critical situation."

Earlier, Simmons thought the play would not be used.

"I was hoping we were going to do it earlier, but then we started getting up more and more and then he (Ghobrial) was like, 'It's out,' and I'm like, 'Damn.' But then they came back and then he was like, 'It's up, the next one we're doing it.' I'm like, 'Let's go.'

"My college roommate plays for the Seahawks, K'Von Wallace. He saw me in there. He knows I'm not on the (block team). He said (after the game), 'When I saw you in the interior, he's like, he's going to jump.' Only he noticed, I guess. Nobody else noticed."

That was a twist of good fortune for Simmons and the Giants.

"I just knew that it was my turn to go make a play. So go make it. We'd be sitting here with different emotions if that play isn't made, you know. At the end of the day, it was just your number's called and you make the plays that you're supposed to make."

If he hadn't made it, the Giants might have had a long, unhappy flight home.

"Big time play at the end obviously by Isaiah and special teams," Jones said. "Defense played great all day against a really good offense. Feels good. I think like any game, there is some stuff we want to do better and clean up but got to enjoy these."

"He's a freak athlete, it takes a freak athlete to do that," Burns said. "He won the game. He took us home, man."