{"id":732900,"date":"2026-02-06T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/732900\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:37:15","slug":"seahawks-slam-druski-for-lame-butchering-of-jaxon-smith-njigbas-name-at-nfl-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/732900\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks slam Druski for \u2018lame\u2019 butchering of Jaxon Smith-Njigba\u2019s name at NFL Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Comedian and actor Drew Desbordes, better known as Druski, had the privilege of joining Barry Sanders in co-presenting the NFL\u2019s Offensive Player of the Year award, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/seattle-seahawks-news\/162101\/nfl-honors-2026-results-seahawks-jaxon-smith-njigba-wins-offensive-player-of-the-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which went to Seattle Seahawks superstar Jaxon Smith-Njigba<\/a>. There was the usual \u201cwrong cue on the teleprompter\u201d gag right before the nominees were announced, and then Druski announced JSN as the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For those who don\u2019t know Druski either from social media or the T-Mobile commercials, he is a big sports fan and actually aspired to be a sportscaster before turning to comedy. My suspicion is that he 100 percent knew how to pronounce Smith-Njigba\u2019s name and could\u2019ve just said \u201cJSN\u201d from the get-go if he wanted to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Uchenna Nwosu and the Seahawks PR team took Druski to task on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedian and actor Drew Desbordes, better known as Druski, had the privilege of joining Barry Sanders in co-presenting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,718,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-732900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","14":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116022545240874500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732900","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=732900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}