Where Seattle Seahawks' JSN stands in push for NFL record

With every week that goes by, it’s becoming more and more of a reality.

Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba is seriously threatening to break the NFL’s single-season receiving yardage record.

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Through the first 10 games of the season, Smith-Njigba has racked up 72 catches for an astounding 1,146 yards and five touchdowns.

Smith-Njigba’s league-leading 1,146 receiving yards are the sixth-most by any NFL player through his team’s first 10 games of a season since the Super Bowl era began in 1967, according to Stathead.

That puts Smith-Njigba on pace to finish with 1,948 receiving yards, which would be the second-most in a single season in NFL history. It would be just 16 yards shy of the NFL single-season record, which Detroit’s Calvin Johnson holds with 1,964 receiving yards in 2012.

Smith-Njigba would need to average 116.9 receiving yards per game over the final seven weeks to break Johnson’s record.

The caveat is that Johnson set that record in a 16-game season, and the NFL moved to a 17-game season in 2021.

Smith-Njigba’s pace would put him 1 yard ahead of current Seahawks wideout Cooper Kupp, whose 1,947 receiving yards with the Los Angeles Rams in 2021 are the second-most in NFL history.

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Here are some other numbers to keep an eye on as Smith-Njigba makes his push for the NFL record:

• Smith-Njigba’s 1,146 receiving yards are a whopping 238 more than any other player in the NFL this season. The next-closest players are Dallas’ George Pickens (908 yards), Cincinnati’s Ja’Marr Chase (861), Rams wideout Puka Nacua (850) and Atlanta’s Drake London (810).

• Smith-Njigba is averaging an NFL-best 114.6 receiving yards per game. Over the course of an entire season, that would rank as the sixth-best mark in the Super Bowl era. The NFL record is held by San Diego’s Wes Chandler, who averaged 129 receiving yards per game in 1982. No other players this season are averaging 95-plus receiving yards per game.

• Smith-Njigba is the only player in NFL history to open a season with 10 consecutive games of at least 75 receiving yards. The previous record was nine straight games, held by Dallas’ Michael Irvin in 1995 and Pittsburgh’s Antonio Brown in 2014.

• Smith-Njigba has seven games this season with at least 100 receiving yards, which already broke Steve Largent’s previous franchise record of six 100-yard receiving games in 1979. The NFL single-season record for the most 100-yard receiving games is 11, held by Irvin (1995), Johnson (2012) and Kupp (2021).

Where Seattle Seahawks’ JSN stands in push for NFL record

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