Warren Leads Seahawks, 16-14 : AFC: Seattle back rushes for a career-high 185 yards as late rally by Houston fizzles out.

Chris Warren almost outgained the Houston Oilers and helped the Seattle Seahawks ease two weeks of misery.

Warren, involved in an auto accident that paralyzed teammate Mike Frier on Dec. 2, rushed for a career-high 185 yards in 30 carries and scored on a 33-yard run. That kept alive Seattle’s slim playoff hopes with a 16-14 victory on Sunday.

“Mike Frier gets the game ball,” Warren said. “I’m sure it will make him feel better. All my prayers and sympathy have been with him. He’ll be getting better.”

Warren ignored the fractured ribs he received in the accident and played until the Seahawks were in control in the fourth quarter.

“I like to have the focus on me, like it was today,” Warren said. “I like to be the one that makes things happen. When something starts to work, why abandon it? We were running the ball real well.”

Warren sat out most of the fourth quarter, despite Houston’s late comeback on Billy Joe Tolliver’s 36-yard touchdown pass to Webster Slaughter and Ernest Givins’ 78-yard punt return for a touchdown.

“Every time I took a deep breath I had pain,” Warren said. “We had the lead and were pretty much in control until the very end. This game was special, because of some key players we have that are injured.”

Seattle (6-8) rushed 50 times for 266 yards.

The Oilers (1-13), trying to regroup under new Coach Jeff Fisher, lost their 10th consecutive game and looked bad doing it--until they scored twice in the final 4:23.

Tolliver completed a two-point conversion pass to Haywood Jeffires following Slaughter’s touchdown catch. Givins took Seattle’s next punt back 78 yards and did a flip into the end zone with 2:53 to play.

But the two-point try failed when Todd McNair caught a pass and was tackled at the one by Robert Blackmon, preventing a tie.

The Oilers’ Bubba McDowell grabbed the ensuing onsides kick, but Oilers hopes ended moments later when cornerback Orlando Watters intercepted Tolliver’s pass at the Seattle 34 and the Seahawks ran out the clock.

The Oilers couldn’t make their offense work most of the game against a Seahawk defense that came in yielding 343.7 yards per game, 24th in the NFL. The Oilers finished with 208 total yards.

The Oilers never found a solution for Warren. He had a 32-yard run in the third quarter that set up Mack Strong’s 13-yard touchdown run.