Smith-Njigba Nears Rare NFL Receiving Milestone

Jaxon Smith-Njigba has a chance to join a select group of NFL receivers when Seattle faces Arizona on November 8. He would become the fourth player to record at least 1,100 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns in the first nine games of a season if he gains 115 yards and scores a touchdown.

Smith-Njigba enters the game with 985 yards and nine touchdowns. He has already recorded five contests this year in which he amassed 115 or more receiving yards and scored a touchdown. Arizona is giving up an average of 220.5 passing yards per game.

Reaching the milestone would also bring Smith-Njigba closer to the single-season receiving-yard record: Calvin Johnson’s 1,964 yards for Detroit in 2012. Smith-Njigba is on pace for 2,093 yards, which would make him the first player to surpass 2,000 receiving yards in a season. A first-round pick in 2023, he has 346 career catches for 4,536 yards and 29 touchdowns.