{"id":731573,"date":"2026-06-28T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731573\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:54:09","slug":"seattle-shows-off-jaxon-smith-njigbas-new-gold-jersey-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731573\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Shows Off Jaxon Smith-Njigba\u2019s New Gold Jersey Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                   Jaxon Smith-Njigba\u2019s will soon be one-handing balls with a while wearing a little extra shine.                <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe former Ohio State wide receiver will wear a gold NFL shield on his Seattle Seahawks jersey this season after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elevenwarriors.com\/ohio-state-football\/2026\/02\/161470\/former-ohio-state-wide-receiver-jaxon-smith-njigba-named-2025-ap-nfl-offensive-player-of-the-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">winning NFL Offensive Player of the Year<\/a> last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSeattle shared a close-up look at Smith-Njigba\u2019s new uniform detail, with the standard NFL shield on the collar replaced by a gold version recognizing his place among the league&#8217;s Mount Rushmore (+1) from last season.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\n\t\tJSN is one of five players to earn a Gold Shield for the 2026 season after being named Offensive Player of the Year. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jaxon_smith1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@jaxon_smith1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EUCQ4OEGuC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/EUCQ4OEGuC<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\u2014 Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Seahawks\/status\/2071275274990444960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe NFL introduced the gold shield program last season, giving the honor to the winners of five major Associated Press awards: MVP, Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Offensive Rookie of the Year and Defensive Rookie of the Year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor Ohio State fans, it is another reminder of how quickly Smith-Njigba has become one of the NFL\u2019s premier offensive players. And, honestly, it looks pretty darn cool.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaxon Smith-Njigba\u2019s will soon be one-handing balls with a while wearing a little extra shine. The former Ohio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-731573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731573","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=731573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}