For the second time in less than a year, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Deommodore Lenoir has called out star Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba.

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With the 12-4 Niners set to host the 13-3 Seahawks in a Saturday night showdown that will decide the NFC West title and No. 1 seed from the NFC in the playoffs, Lenoir brought up “JSN” while talking to the media on Monday.

“Hopefully I get to shadow JSN,” Lenoir said. “I’m ready for this. Like, I hope he ready. … Man-to-man coverage, me and him. That’s what I want. Me and him.”

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Lenoir memorably threw shade at JSN back in March after it was reported that two-time Pro Bowl receiver DK Metcalf had requested a trade from the Seahawks, one Seattle would grant soon after by making a deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

“Bro you can’t leave Seattle you the only one that made that game fun,” Lenoir wrote while re-posting a Bleacher Report graphic about Metcalf’s reported trade request.

Lenoir doubled-down shortly after by calling out Smith-Njigba by name on an Instagram video.

“Y’all cannot let DK let leave. Y’all can’t do that. Like, who… how am I gonna have fun out there?” Lenoir said in the video. “Njigba, he be crying all day. He cry. That’s all he do is cry. ‘Ref, he holding. He holding, ref. Oh no, don’t hurt me.’ Crybaby. Bro, I’m not worried about JSN. He know that.”

Whether or not Lenoir was worried about JSN, that fact is that Smith-Njigba has flourished this year following the trade of Metcalf and Seattle’s quarterback switch from Geno Smith to Sam Darnold. JSN leads the NFL in receiving with 1,709 yards, which includes 124 yards he had on nine receptions back in Week 1 against Lenoir’s 49ers. And the Seahawks have been plenty of fun without Metcalf, becoming the only team in the NFC to win 13 games through Week 17 and giving themselves a chance at the first 14-win season in franchise history.

Seattle Sports’ Brock Huard, a longtime football broadcast analyst and former NFL QB, reacted on Tuesday’s edition of Brock and Salk by saying Lenoir’s request to cover JSN in man-to-man coverage is ill-advised.

“Guess what? You ain’t covering him,” Huard said. “Man-to-man, you’re not covering him. No matter who you are… (Lenoir) is not that good. He’s a good player. He’s not elite.”

The Seahawks visit the 49ers at 5 p.m Saturday. Radio coverage on Seattle Sports will begin at 2 p.m. with the pregame show.

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