Whenever the Seattle Seahawks play, it becomes evidently clear that Jaxon Smith-Njigba is the best player on the field.
The smooth wide receiver always finds himself open. Smith-Njigba can pick up yards on screen passes, dice up defenses on intermediate routes, or torch team on a deep pattern.
He is a quarterback’s best friend. His crisp route-running gives his passer the margin of error to put the ball in his general area.
JSN is his nickname, but he might as well be called 7-11. Because Jaxon Smith-Njigba is always open.
His crisp ability leads to incredible statistical production, and over the course of the season, those stats are putting him in the record books.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba Is Piling Up 90-Yard Games
If you have Smith-Njigba on your fantasy football team, you are having a good time. There is a good chance JSN is the main catalyst in your fantasy football playoff run.
His production is consistent, and it is now historic.
That is simply an absurd statistic. There have only been two games where he has not gotten 90 yards this year, and one of those games was a 79-yard performance in Week 4 against the Arizona Cardinals.
The fact that JSN reached that statistical milestone and Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Terrell Owens, or anyone else did not is mind-bending.
It is also wild that Smith Njigba already has two full seasons under his belt, and now in his third, he is putting up unprecedented numbers.
JSN had a decent rookie season with 628 receiving yards, then followed that up with 1,130 yards in 2024.
Through 14 games in 2025, he leads the NFL with 1,541 receiving yards. If he keeps up his average of 110.1 yards per game, he will finish the season with 1,871 receiving yards.
That would be tied for the third-most receiving yards in a single season in NFL history, since Julio Jones had 1,871 yards in 2015 with the Atlanta Falcons.
Calvin Johnson holds the single season record of 1,964 yards as a member of the Detroit Lions in 2012. Cooper Kupp, Smith Njigba’s current teammate, has the second-most receiving yards in a season when he recorded 1,947 yards in 2021 with the Los Angeles Rams.
And yes, Johnson and Jones accomplished those marks in a 16-game season while JSN has 17 games to potentially do it this year. Everyone understands that. It would still be a remarkable achievement for him to flirt with 1,900 receiving yards.
Heck, he was on pace for 2,000 yards at one point in the season.
Oh yeah, Smith-Njigba is doing this at 23 years old!!!
Jaxon Smith-Njigba is the OPOY Favorite
This level of production means JSN will be taking home some hardware.
Smith-Njigba is the heavy favorite to win the Offensive Player of the Year award. Nothing is decided yet, but if he keeps playing as well as he has, then he will win the award.
That would be an incredibly impressive step for someone who could not legally drink alcohol this time three years ago.
He would only be the second Seahawks player to win OPOY. The other was Shaun Alexander when he also won MVP after rushing for 1,880 yards and 27 touchdowns.
For JSN to do something that even Steve Largent didn’t do is a testament to how good he has been.
And Smith-Njigba likely has another decade left in the NFL…
One can only wonder where JSN will be in the receiving yardage totals by the time his career is over.
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