{"id":681674,"date":"2026-01-16T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/681674\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:00:38","slug":"jaxon-smith-njigba-divisional-round-preview-vs-the-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/681674\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaxon Smith-Njigba Divisional Round Preview vs. the 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Seahawks receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba has a good matchup in the NFC Divisional Round (Saturday at 8 p.m. ET), playing the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers gave up the eighth-most passing yards in the regular season, 232.4 per game.<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba&#8217;s 119 receptions (on 163 targets) have netted him a team-leading 1,793 yards (105.5 per game) and 10 TDs so far this season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/62735?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1441&amp;pb=959275&amp;cid=Uo4GSLKp8m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch this game on Fubo<\/a> (Regional restrictions may apply).<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the game on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/live\/1077-the-bone-5529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">107.7 The Bone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba vs. the 49ers<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba vs the 49ers (since 2021): 4 GP \/ 92.8 REC YPG \/ 0 REC TD<br \/>\nSan Francisco has allowed four opposing receivers to amass 100 or more receiving yards in a game in the 2025 season.<br \/>\n27 players have caught a TD pass against the 49ers this year.<br \/>\nSan Francisco has given up at least two TD receptions to just two opposing players on the season.<br \/>\nSmith-Njigba will play against the NFL&#8217;s 25th-ranked pass defense this week. The 49ers concede 232.4 passing yards per contest.<br \/>\nThe 49ers have the No. 21 defense in the league in passing touchdowns allowed, conceding 29 this season (1.7 per game).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/62736?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1422&amp;pb=959284&amp;cid=Uo4GSLKp8m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Catch every NFL touchdown with NFL RedZone on Fubo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba Receiving Insights<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba, in 12 of 17 games, has gone over on his receiving yards prop bet.<br \/>\nSmith-Njigba has 33.9% of his team&#8217;s target share (163 targets on 481 passing attempts).<br \/>\nHe is averaging 11.0 yards per target (sixth in league play), picking up 1,793 yards on 163 passes thrown his way.<br \/>\nIn eight of 17 games this season, Smith-Njigba has a touchdown catch, with more than one TD in two games.<br \/>\nHe has 10 total touchdowns this season (22.7% of his team&#8217;s 44 offensive TDs).<br \/>\nWith 17 red zone targets, Smith-Njigba has been on the receiving end of 25.8% of his team&#8217;s 66 red zone pass attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Get in the game and sign up for FanDuel Fantasy today. <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/70562?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=4416&amp;cid=Uo4GSLKp8m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Use our link<\/a> to start playing daily fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba&#8217;s Recent Performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba has a good matchup in the NFC Divisional Round (Saturday at 8 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,61566,7,2869,6,1161,252,2624,2623,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-681674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-ds-sports","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jaxon-smith-njigba","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","17":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115904671446348304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681674","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=681674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}