{"id":716608,"date":"2026-01-30T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716608\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:42:23","slug":"las-vegas-raiders-defensive-end-maxx-crosby-shares-honest-thoughts-on-seattle-seahawks-wide-receiver-jaxon-smith-njigba-nfl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716608\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby shares honest thoughts on Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba | NFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Las(Image via Getty: Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Maxx Crosby) Maxx Crosby<\/a> is reportedly rooting for Seattle Seahawks\u2019 Sam Darnold over New England Patriots\u2019 Drake Maye. This clear preference led The Rush Podcast co-host Darien Terrell to say, \u201c[Darnold] He doesn\u2019t have to wear it all on his shoulders, JSN [Jaxon Smith-Njigba]\u2019s gonna be there.\u201d\u201cI feel that JSN is unreal,\u201d Crosby chimes in. \u201cHe\u2019s had a crazy year, bro. He\u2019s been going nuclear, and clearly they knew in that front office how good he was by letting DK [Metcalf] go, and Tyler Lockett go, and just seeing him explode into being that number one receiver that clearly they saw him being. You got to give them a lot of credit, too.\u201d <\/p>\n

Jaxon Smith-Njigba ran solo without DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett<\/p>\n

Five-time Pro Bowler Maxx Crosby shared that Jaxson Smith-Njigba went nuclear [solo] in the 2025 season. He was picked by Seattle in 2023 NFL Draft as their first-round, 20th overall pick. The two-time Pro Bowler recorded 59 receptions, 850 receiving yards, and six receiving touchdowns in 2025.The Seahawks\u2019 front office knew how good Smith-Njigba was because they let wide receiver DK Metcalf go to the Pittsburgh Steelers and wideout Tyler Lockett to the Tennessee Titans for the 2025 season. Metcalf, 28, was drafted by the Seahawks as the 64th overall pick in the second round of the 2019 NFL Draft. He played for them till 2024. After six seasons with the Seahawks, he was traded to the Steelers. <\/p>\n

Tyler Lockett joined Maxx Crosby in Las Vegas Raiders<\/p>\n

Lockett, 33, had been with Seattle since he was drafted in 2015 as the 69th overall pick in the third round. He played through the 2024 season.\u201cTen years with the same team,\u201d Lockett told NFL Network\u2019s John Boyle in Mar. 2025. \u201cI think the only people that\u2019s done it since I\u2019ve been able to play on this team were K.J. [Wright], Bobby [Wagner], Russ [Russell Wilson]. I appreciate the city too. The city is amazing. I\u2019ll always view Seattle as a college town. Maybe this isn\u2019t the end, maybe it is, but I always will be a Seahawk through and through.\u201dIn Apr. 2025, Lockett signed a one-year, $6 million contract with the Titans. However, in Oct. 2025, NFL Insider Adam Schefter reported on X that the veteran wide receiver asked for and received his release from Tennessee. A user quickly commented, \u201cThe 20th straight retirement home receiver to sign with and fail miserably with the Tennessee Titans.\u201dAnother user shared a picture of Tyler with former Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll and captioned it \u201cRaider.\u201d The coach will not be there now, but in 2026, the wideout may play for the Raiders. Looks like Crosby will get to play with Lockett in Las Vegas! Again. The Raiders signed Lockett in Oct. 2025, and he played ten games for them in 2025 season accumulating 22 passes on 34 targets for 221 yards and a score. However, on Jan. 9, 2026, CBS Sports reported that Lockett is set to become an unrestricted free agent, though retirement could be a possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image via Getty: Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Maxx Crosby) Maxx Crosby is reportedly rooting for Seattle Seahawks\u2019 Sam Darnold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2081],"tags":[2870,833,7,103741,2869,393,6563,6,835,1878,238,237,261,2635,2864],"class_list":{"0":"post-716608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-dk-metcalf","9":"tag-drake-maye","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-football-trade-news","12":"tag-jaxon-smith-njigba","13":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","14":"tag-maxx-crosby","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-news","17":"tag-sam-darnold","18":"tag-seahawks","19":"tag-seattle","20":"tag-seattle-seahawks","21":"tag-seattleseahawks","22":"tag-tyler-lockett"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115984345235964227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716608","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=716608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}