{"id":590818,"date":"2026-04-18T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590818\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:23:08","slug":"foot-scanning-cleared-up-jaxon-smith-njigbas-hamstring-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590818\/","title":{"rendered":"Foot scanning cleared up Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s hamstring issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba played only three games in his final season at Ohio State due to hamstring issues. The Seahawks did foot scanning on Smith-Njigba when he arrived as a first-round pick in 2023 and discovered something that cleared up his tight hamstrings.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks\u2019 director of equipment, Erik Kennedy, explained the result on The John Schneider Show on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re always trying to find little edges<\/a> that can help players,\u201d Kennedy said, via Brent Stecker of Seattle Sports. \u201cLet\u2019s just say Jaxon Smith-Njigba, you were talking him about in college, he was wearing a size 12, had hamstring issues and things like that. Gets here, he\u2019s a 10 1\/2. . . . It\u2019s helped him, right? He hasn\u2019t missed time and done things like that. That helps build the trust for us with the players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith-Njigba has played all 51 possible games in his three NFL seasons, as well as all three playoff games in 2025.<\/p>\n

Schneider said the Seahawks were the first team in the NFL to do foot scanning, thanks to Kennedy\u2019s relationship with Nike. Kennedy said he and his team do more than just fit players in the correct shoes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we get into is the helmet, to protect the players, everything should be custom, right?\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten to the point we believe everything\u2019s custom, and John and those guys and the ownership and everybody\u2019s afforded us the opportunity to go out and chase and do those things where wearing the top helmets, wearing custom shoulder pads that are scanned to the body, scanning the feet, like getting to the point where you\u2019re basically scanning everything to fit the person, and then having the crew to be able to do it. There\u2019s five of us full-time guys that do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba played only three games in his final season at Ohio State due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-590818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}