Jaxon Smith-Njigba is stacking another huge season, and the numbers say he’s right back in the hunt for NFL history.
Through seven weeks of 2026, the Seahawks wideout has 867 receiving yards. At the same point last season, he had 819. That 48-yard gap isn’t massive, but it reinforces the same thing Seattle has been seeing: Smith-Njigba keeps producing, and he keeps doing it at a star level.
The pace is eye-catching. Right now, he’s on track for 2,105 receiving yards by season’s end, which would put him well beyond Calvin Johnson’s single-season record of 1,964.
Of course, this isn’t the first time Smith-Njigba has flirted with that mark. Last season, he was also tracking toward Johnson’s record after seven weeks, when his pace projected to 1,989 yards. He didn’t get there, but he still finished with a historic year and earned AP Offensive Player of the Year honors for his 2025 performance.
That’s what makes this latest run so compelling. Smith-Njigba has already shown he can sustain elite production over a full season, and he’s doing it again with a start that looks nearly identical to last year’s surge. If he keeps this level up the rest of the way, he’ll have a real shot at challenging one of the NFL’s most famous records.
This season may even offer a better path. Seattle’s remaining schedule gives him chances to keep piling up yards, and as his connection with the offense continues to grow, Smith-Njigba looks capable of turning another brilliant season into the best receiving year the league has ever seen.
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