Buried underneath the rubble of a forgettable, flat-out ugly Sunday Night Football primetime 30-13 Seattle loss to the Green Bay Packers was one small silver lining: at least receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba wasn’t a no-show.
His second-year breakout continued, one of few bright spots in an otherwise dismal Seahawks effort in front of a sellout crowd at Lumen Field on Sunday. Smith-Njigba, in his second season with Seattle after being drafted by the Seahawks in the first round of last year’s NFL Draft, is now just six yards away from becoming the first Seahawk not named D.K. Metcalf or Tyler Lockett to hit the 1,000-yard receiving mark since Doug Baldwin racked up 1,128 yards in 2016.