Jaxon Smith-Njigba

Seattle Seahawks·#11

Pos WRHt 6'0"Wt 198 lbExp 3 yrCollege Ohio State

Updated September 21, 2026

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Model Score

93.0 MODEL

2023

72.4

2024

79.9

2025

93.0

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

Jaxon Smith-Njigba Injury StatusNot listed

Jaxon Smith-Njigba is not on the injury report as of Sep 20. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba Stats This Season · 1 games

Rec

122

Rec Yds

Rec TD

Targets

122.0

Yds/Gm

26.2

Fantasy PPG

Advanced Metrics EPA & Next Gen Stats

1.325

EPA / target

3.1 yd

Avg separation

6.2 yd

Avg cushion

4.3

YAC over exp

72.7%

Catch %

Draft & College

Round 1, pick 20 · Seattle Seahawks · 2023

Ohio State (Big Ten)

Taken

#20

where he actually went

Consensus board

19th

average of the public big boards that spring

Our college model

#30

among WR in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2020-2021 · 19 games · partial record

105 rec, 1,654 yds, 10 TD, 15.8 yds/rec

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Comps

College career

his college career vs theirs

Tre Harris78%Trevor Insley78%Kevin Curtis77%

STM Take

Smith-Njigba's climb from STTM #64 tier 8 as a rookie to #17 tier 3 to #2 tier 1 with a 2025 OPOY is the most aggressive two-year trajectory at the position. The 2025 statistical sweep (yards leader + 1st-team AP + ring + OPOY) is the highest single-season honors total any WR posted this cycle. Career 3,551 yards on 282 catches at 12.6 YPC in three years is an efficiency profile that climbs every year.

Smith-Njigba was born in Nacogdoches, Texas, raised in Rockwall, and played three years at Ohio State where he set the school's single-season record for receiving yards (1,606) and won the 2022 Rose Bowl Offensive MVP. Seattle took him 20th overall in the 2023 NFL Draft. His 2025 season was historic: NFL receiving yards leader (1,793 yards on 119 catches, a Seahawks franchise record), first-team All-Pro, NFL Offensive Player of the Year, and Super Bowl LX champion.

Strengths

2025 NFL OPOY plus the league receiving yards crown (1,793) plus a Super Bowl LX ring; the trophy case is one-of-one this year.
Three-tier improvement across his first three years (tier 8 → tier 3 → tier 1); the climb is monotonic.

Concerns

Sam Darnold's tier-4 QB rank shows the offense around him is volatile; the 2025 case may not survive a QB regression.
12.6 career YPC is below the elite tier (Nacua, Chase, AJ Brown all higher); the value still lives on volume, not depth-of-target.

What to watch: Whether the 2025 1,793-yard line was a Super Bowl-driven outlier or the new baseline; the YPC efficiency case is the cleaner long-term tell.