{"id":730387,"date":"2026-02-05T03:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/730387\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:53:20","slug":"zero-doubts-what-jaxon-smith-njigba-brings-to-super-bowl-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/730387\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero doubts what Jaxon Smith-Njigba brings to Super Bowl 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 Just eight wide receivers, most recently Cooper Kupp with the Rams in 2022, have won Super Bowl MVP.<\/p>\n<p>It is an award that has been reserved 34 times for the quarterback, but do not bet against Seahawks thoroughbred Jaxon Smith-Njigba becoming the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, I think he has a shot,\u201d former Ohio State receivers coach Brian Hartline, now the head coach at the University of South Florida, told The Post. \u201cAbsolutely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, we took a lot of pride at Ohio State on providing value for the quarterback. By doing so, he provided value to the O-line because the faster we get open, the faster the ball leaves the quarterback\u2019s hand, the faster the O-line is safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 Just eight wide receivers, most recently Cooper Kupp with the Rams in 2022, have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,2869,1014,58,2444,2611,6,424,261,9,2833,3248,505,41484],"class_list":{"0":"post-730387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jaxon-smith-njigba","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rams","16":"tag-seattle-seahawks","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-super-bowl","21":"tag-super-bowl-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116016002340394519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730387","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=730387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}