“It’s pretty,” Smith-Njigba said of Darnold’s deep ball. “It’s up in the air in the perfect spot, and he allows me to adjust and make a play on the ball. We just keep connecting, so hopefully we keep it going.”

Smith-Njigba has now eclipsed 100 yards in four of six games, with his season low still being a respectable 79-yard performance in a win in Arizona. With 696 yards through six games, Smith-Njigba is now the league’s leading receiver after overtaking Rams receiver Puka Nacua, who left this week’s game early with an ankle injury.

“His consistency has been amazing, just the way he has come to work every single day, the way that he practices every single day,” said Darnold. “That’s a testament to the way he works and the standard that him and really Coop (Kupp) and a lot of the guys kind of set the standard in that room. They never waver from it.”

While leading the league in receiving would be a big accomplishment, that’s not something Smith-Njigba is thinking about this early in the season.

“Not at this moment, it’s a long season, we’ve got a long ways to go, and we just need to keep stacking wins,” Smith-Njigba said.

In what has turned out to be one of the sillier preseason storylines about the 2025 Seahawks, there were some people wondering, after the Seahawks signed Kupp in free agency, how the veteran receiver and Smith-Njigba would coexist since both have spent a lot of their careers playing in the slot. The answer that any Seahawks coach or player would give when asked about that topic leading up to the season was that both Kupp and Smith-Njigba are great receivers, not great slot receivers, and that it would all work out. And sure enough it has worked out very well, with Smith-Njigba leading the way while Kupp has pitched in numerous clutch catches, including a 29-yard catch and run on Sunday that he followed with an 11-yard touchdown.

On Sunday, Smith-Njigba lined up out wide on a career-high 88.5 percent of his routes, according to NFL Next Gen Stats, and he caught 7 of 11 targets when lined up out wide for 163 yards, with his one catch in the slot going for a 1-yard loss.

Asked about the incorrect notion that Smith-Njigba was “just” a slot receiver coming into this season, Macdonald smiled and said, “That’s a good evaluation, that they wrongfully pegged him as a slot guy. That’s the answer. He’s just a great receiver.”