Jaxon Smith-Njigba 2025 Season in Review

Jaxon Smith-Njigba finished 2025 as the number 2 wide receiver in total PPR scoring and the number 2 wide receiver in PPR per game — and this wasn't a fluky, touchdown-inflated finish. This was a true alpha receiver season on the best team in football. Smith-Njigba was the engine of a Seahawks passing game that went 14-3, won the NFC West, and hoisted the Lombardi after beating the Patriots 29-13. He was Sam Darnold's number one read, his safety blanket, and his explosive shot all at once. When you're the verified top receiver on a Super Bowl winner and scoring like a top-two fantasy wideout, you didn't just have a good year — you smashed.

Now let's dig into the numbers, because this is where the story sharpens. Smith-Njigba caught 119 balls on 163 targets for 1,793 yards and 10 touchdowns across 17 games — and the usage underneath is absurd. He commanded a 37 percent average target share and a 50 percent average air yards share, meaning half of every ball Darnold threw downfield was earmarked for him. His total receiving expected points added came in at plus 90.7. Elite alpha territory. He averaged 21.2 PPR per game, and the consistency is what should make fantasy managers grin: he cleared 18 PPR in fourteen of seventeen games and posted six different games above 22 points. The only real dud was Week 13 against the Vikings, when Seattle won 26-0 and he managed just 4.3 points on two catches. Outside that game-script outlier, this was the steadiest high-end floor at the position.

The play that captures the season came in Week 12 at Tennessee, his biggest fantasy day of the year — 37.1 points on 8 catches for 167 yards and two scores. Second quarter, third and 6, Seahawks tied 3-3, Darnold drops back and rips it deep right to Smith-Njigba for a 63-yard touchdown — 43 in the air, 20 after the catch. That one snap was worth plus 6.4 expected points. And it's the whole season compressed: the volume, the air yards share, the explosive ceiling, the third-down trust from his quarterback. That's how you finish as the number 2 wide receiver in fantasy.