The legend of Jaxon Smith-Njigba keeps growing as he does something no Seahawks skill player has in nearly a decade — on a bye week

Smith-Njigba finished the month of October with three consecutive games with eight receptions, at least 123 receiving yards, and a touchdown in each. Talk about a good month at the office. Seattle is suddenly looking like a team that can dream big for the 2025 season and the connection between the breakout receiver and new quarterback Sam Darnold should be considered a massive part of the reason why.

There's plenty of credit to go around. Offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak has done a great job of mixing heavy personnel packages to get lots of space for their star receiver to create separation off of play action. Whether it is man or zone, press or off — no one has found an answer to JSN.

His honor is pretty rarefied are for a Seahawks offensive player, too.

Most recent Seattle Seahawks to win NFC Offensive Player of the Month

• WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba: October, 2025
• QB Geno Smith: October, 2022
• QB Russell Wilson: September, 2020
• RB Chris Carson: December, 2018

He's the first skill player (read: non-quarterback) to win the award since running back Chris Carson in December of 2018, when he rushed for 516 yards and five touchdowns in five games. Only Geno Smith and Russell Wilson have won it since — making the legend and resume of Smith-Njigba's season grow to even greater heights. Not a bad notch in your belt for a bye week.

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