Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba is leading the league in receiving yards this season, and he\u2019s on pace to lead all receivers in NFL history with his production this season.<\/p>\n
Smith-Njigba has 948 receiving yards through eight games, a league-leading average of 118.5 receiving yards per game. If he keeps up that pace over a 17-game season, he\u2019ll finish 2025 with 2,015 receiving yards. That would be the first 2,000-yard season for a receiver in NFL history.<\/p>\n
The current record for most receiving yards in a season is held by Lions Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson, who had 1,964 receiving yards in 2012. Johnson\u2019s average of 122.75 yards per game that year was higher than Smith-Njigba is averaging this year, but Johnson did it in a 16-game season. The 17th game could get Smith-Njigba the record.<\/p>\n
The Seahawks traded for wide receiver Rashid Shaheed just before Tuesday\u2019s trade deadline, and the threat of Shaheed making plays downfield could keep opposing defenses from doubling Smith-Njigba, and help him stay on his record pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba is leading the league in receiving yards this season, and he\u2019s on pace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-264127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}