{"id":463009,"date":"2026-02-09T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463009\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:34:09","slug":"seahawks-jaxon-smith-njigba-eyed-for-concussion-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463009\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks&#8217; Jaxon Smith-Njigba eyed for concussion, returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/henderson_brady.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brady HendersonFeb 8, 2026, 09:40 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Brady Henderson is a reporter for NFL Nation and covers the Seattle Seahawks for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2017 after covering the team for Seattle Sports 710-AM.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Authors<\/p>\n<p>SANTA CLARA, Calif. &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3767a23c-a17d-294f-288a-9086ad1f0680\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-seahawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> wide receiver <a data-player-guid=\"edf87204-0e8c-331c-ac63-c6e04a89ee76\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4430878\/jaxon-smith-njigba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaxon Smith-Njigba<\/a> was evaluated for a possible concussion before returning to Super Bowl LX on Sunday night against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0078f353-fe3e-67ed-a42c-43cca0568e21\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ne\/new-england-patriots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba appeared to be shaken up after catching a pass for 4 yards with 6:50 left in the third quarter. He spent several minutes in the medical tent before jogging inside.<\/p>\n<p>He was officially deemed questionable to return before returning to the field early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL&#8217;s leading receiver during the regular season and the AP Offensive Player of the Year, Smith-Njigba had been held to three catches on nine targets for 24 yards before exiting. He got open behind New England&#8217;s defense in the first quarter on a play that <a data-player-guid=\"938f19a1-ef9b-618c-2365-d55291e0fcc6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3912547\/sam-darnold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Darnold<\/a> extended, but the quarterback overthrew him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brady HendersonFeb 8, 2026, 09:40 PM ET CloseBrady Henderson is a reporter for NFL Nation and covers the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-463009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}