{"id":694614,"date":"2026-06-10T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694614\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:07:09","slug":"jaxon-smith-njigba-gets-a-corrected-offensive-player-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694614\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaxon Smith-Njigba gets a corrected Offensive Player of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaxon Smith-Njigba was Offensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>But the NFL initially gave the Seahawks wide receiver an award that called him the \u201cOefensive Player of the Year.\u201d Smith-Njigba said Tuesday that the league fixed the typo on a new award they shipped him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Seahawks\/status\/2064481586637381977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">We checked it<\/a>,\u201d Smith-Njigba said, via video from the team. \u201cEverybody cleared it. I had the whole team read it, make sure it was right, and it\u2019s good, solid.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>What can\u2019t be fixed is Druski mispronouncing Smith-Njigba\u2019s name at NFL Honors.<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba initially called the typo and mispronouncing his name \u201cdisrespectful,\u201d but said Tuesday he is no longer bothered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Super Bowl, it\u2019s a lot, a lot of things are thrown at you, and I tried my best to stay focused . . . on the game, but now I have no [negative] feelings, ways towards the NFL, Roger [Goodell] or Druski,\u201d Smith-Njigba said. \u201cSo, I\u2019ll just take my trophy and accolades and all that stuff and chill at home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaxon Smith-Njigba was Offensive Player of the Year. But the NFL initially gave the Seahawks wide receiver an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-694614","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\/694614","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=694614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}