But Seahawks hold on to Rashid Shaheed. I think he will get more playing time as Richard Sherman suggests.
What a duo of receivers; him and Smith-Njigba.
They need to have plans for him.
My plans:
- As a decoy for Smith-Njigba. Needs to be effective in drawing the safety away from S-N.
- As a primary when Smith-Njigba is double-covered.
- 90% of downs on offense. Can he handle that?
- All Receiving returns.
- End-arounds will be picked up a lot more by defenses prepared for them. So, he should start working on his passing game.
Respectable TE would be helpful as well to add to the confusion.
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Wow.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba agrees to 4-year, $168.6M extension: Source
The Seattle Seahawks are making Jaxon Smith-Njigba the highest-paid wide receiver in the NFL on an annual basis after agreeing to a four-year, $168.6 million deal, league sources tell The Athletic. The 2025 first-team All-Pro and Offensive Player of the Year helped lead the Seahawks to a Super Bowl win after catching for a league-high 1,793 yards on 119 receptions.
Any QBs looking for a payday in SEA will be disappointed.
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“JSN is your payday”
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JSN can get open for any QB.
If he keeps playing at the same level, they’ll pay him. Not top of the market, but better than the $44m per year Daniel Jones just got. The last thing you want is a situation like MN last year.
This will probably all have been forgotten before Nacua becomes a free agent and gets a bigger contract than JSN.
I don’t think this was posted, and I was bored, so here is a great write-up of what happened and how, by one of my favorite ESPN analysts.
TL;DR: Just confused the shit out of Maye.
Macdonald was repeatedly able to dictate and predict what the Patriots would do in pass protection and then take advantage of what they showed in response. Doing that with an athlete of Witherspoon’s caliber as the pass rusher makes things infinitely more difficult for the opposing quarterback. A veteran passer might have been able to reset the protection quickly, notice that Witherspoon was coming a tick earlier before the snap or do a better job of getting the ball out quickly afterward. But given how far under the radar the possibility of pressure from Witherspoon flew before the game, I’m not sure the Pats would have had a realistic response even with a more experienced quarterback.
Also this:
To get there, Macdonald broke with an established tendency and showed the Patriots something they either weren’t expecting or severely underestimated. During the regular season, the Seahawks blitzed only 20.7% of the time, the fifth-lowest rate in the NFL. On Sunday, that number actually dropped to 15.1% – but it was heavily split by half. Macdonald blitzed Maye 33.3% of the time in the first half before dialing it back and sending extra rushers just 8% of the time after the break.
5-D Chess.
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The extra rushers in the second half were the ghosts Maye was seeing
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Didn’t pretty much everyone in the playoffs shutdown the Patriots?
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