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6:48 p.m.

Referee Tony Corrente has been helped off the field in Seattle by athletic trainers after dropping to one knee on the field following a play midway through the third quarter of the game between the Lions and Seahawks.

The game was stopped with 7:34 remaining in the quarter after Corrente was down on the turf well behind the play. Medical personnel immediately rushed off both sidelines and Corrente eventually walked off the field and toward the Seahawks locker room with a Seattle trainer holding his arm.

The game was delayed for a couple of minutes and back judge Todd Prukop took over as the referee.