A quarter-century after Y2K had its moment, is the NFL entering D2K?<\/p>\n
The Seahawks\u2019 Jaxon Smith-Njigba is the fourth wideout in the past five seasons to flirt with the NFL\u2019s first-ever 2,000-yard receiving season. At the same time, the Colts\u2019 Jonathan Taylor is only slightly off of Saquon Barkley\u2019s pace from a 2,000-yard rushing season in 2024.<\/p>\n
In the era of 17-game regular seasons \u2014 soon-to-be 18-game \u2014 are we entering a Decade of 2,000-Yard Chases? Or are we witnessing rare special performances that will be appreciated more with time?<\/p>\n
\u201cAt those two positions, it\u2019s very difficult to go through an entire season and remain healthy, especially at the running back position,\u201d said Ryan Fitzpatrick, who will be one of the studio analysts for Prime Video\u2019s \u201cBlack Friday Football\u201d game at 3 p.m when the Bears visit the Eagles. \u201cThey\u2019re both very impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A quarter-century after Y2K had its moment, is the NFL entering D2K? The Seahawks\u2019 Jaxon Smith-Njigba is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,392,2869,1753,6,13835,109,894,238,237,261,2635,9,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-561330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-indianapolis-colts","10":"tag-jaxon-smith-njigba","11":"tag-jonathan-taylor","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-playbook","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-saquon-barkley","16":"tag-seahawks","17":"tag-seattle","18":"tag-seattle-seahawks","19":"tag-seattleseahawks","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115628617905792146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}