Super Bowl 60 began with expectations and ended with history, as the Seattle Seahawks walked away with the Lombardi Trophy and a season that will be talked about for years. On football’s grandest stage, one Seahawks star kept cutting through the noise: Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
And while the celebration focused on the title, the real shock sits just beneath the surface. This wasn’t a typical Super Bowl run for JSN, as NFL insider Jordan Schultz reported the star wide receiver has made history.
Inside the Historic NFL Campaign That Defined Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s Rise
The NFL insider reported what history JSN has made in the 2025 NFL season. Schultz wrote, “#Seahawks WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba is the second player in NFL history to lead the league in receiving, win Offensive Player of the Year and win the Super Bowl in the same season.”
And added, “The only other player to do it was teammate Cooper Kupp in 2021.”
Smith-Njigba delivered a defining 2025 NFL season that firmly placed him among the league’s elite.
He finished the year with 119 receptions for a league-leading 1,793 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns, averaging more than 105 yards per game across 17 contests.
In the Super Bowl against the Patriots, Smith-Njigba delivered a modest but steady performance as part of Seattle’s balanced offensive approach. He finished the game with four receptions for 27 yards on 10 targets, helping move the chains at key moments as the Seahawks went on to secure a 29–13 victory and capture the Lombardi Trophy.
But to take a quick look at Cooper Kupp’s historic season, in 2021, Kupp delivered one of the most dominant receiving campaigns in recent NFL history. He recorded 145 receptions for 1,947 receiving yards and 16 touchdowns over 17 regular-season games.
His 1,947 yards were the second-most receiving yards in a single season in NFL history, and his 145 catches ranked near the top of all time as well.
Kupp’s excellence earned him Pro Bowl honors, First-Team All-Pro recognition, and the NFL Offensive Player of the Year award, and he capped it with a Super Bowl LVI MVP performance, making that 2021 season one of the most complete in league memory.
JSN’s 2025 NFL season is also quite similar to Kupp’s 2021 season. Beyond the raw numbers, Smith-Njigba consistently controlled games, stretched defenses, and emerged as the focal point of Seattle’s offense during its Super Bowl run.
His dominance was recognized across the league.
Smith-Njigba set a new Seahawks franchise record for receiving yards by earning First-Team All-Pro honors. He was also named the 2025 AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year, becoming only the second player in team history to win the award.
JSN carried that form into the postseason as well, delivering multiple game-changing performances that helped power Seattle to a championship and cemented his season as one of the most impactful by any receiver in recent NFL history.
