Jaxon Smith-Njigba

CTL-E-5924 · Person · other · 2002–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07169 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5924.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba, born 14 February 2002 in Nacogdoches, Texas, is an American football wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks. He is of Sierra Leonean descent through his father: his paternal grandparents came from Sierra Leone, and as a high-school player he added "Njigba" — his grandfather's original surname, set aside for "Smith" on immigrating to the United States in the 1970s — to his own name to honor him. Raised in Rockwall, Texas, he starred at Ohio State, where his 347 receiving yards against Utah in the Rose Bowl on 1 January 2022 set the bowl's record. Seattle selected him 20th overall in the 2023 NFL Draft. In 2025 he led the NFL with 1,793 receiving yards on 119 receptions, was named NFL Offensive Player of the Year, and helped Seattle win Super Bowl LX over New England in February 2026. That spring the Seahawks signed him to a four-year, $168.6 million extension, reported as the richest contract ever given to a wide receiver. He remains Seattle's No. 1 receiver in the 2026 season.

The record

• Also known as: JSN

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Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Jaxon Smith-Njigba entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5924 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1071 (Football Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American NFL wide receiver of Sierra Leonean descent through his father (paternal grandparents from Sierra Leone — Wikipedia). Vital status: LIVING — Seattle Seahawks No. 1 receiver in the 2026 season, opening the year as a defending Super Bowl champion after signing a record wide-receiver extension in March 2026 (Flashscore / ESPN reporting; 2026 Seahawks camp coverage). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): led the NFL with 1,793 receiving yards on 119 receptions with 10 touchdowns in 2025 and won AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year; Super Bowl LX champion (February 2026); four-year, $168.6 million extension, the richest wide-receiver contract reported to that date (Flashscore / ESPN reporting) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (Seahawks team and press photography of Smith-Njigba exists, including Super Bowl LX coverage; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5924-jaxon-smith-njigba.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Jaxon Smith-Njigba" — born 14 February 2002 in Nacogdoches, Texas, to Maada and Jami Smith; raised in Rockwall, Texas; of Sierra Leonean descent, his paternal grandparents from Sierra Leone; added "Njigba" in high school to honor his grandfather; Ohio State; drafted 20th overall by Seattle in 2023; helped Seattle win Super Bowl LX — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaxon_Smith-Njigba (primary source · build store)
• Flashscore (reporting ESPN's Adam Schefter), "Seahawks and OPOY Jaxon Smith-Njigba agree on record extension worth $168 million" — four-year, $168.6 million extension making him the highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history; led the NFL with 1,793 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns on 119 receptions in 2025; AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year; 628 yards as a rookie in 2023 and 1,130 yards in 2024 — https://Www.flashscore.com/news/american-football-nfl-seahawks-and-opoy-jaxon-smith-njigba-agree-on-record-extension-worth-168-million/t4ypjj94/ (build store)

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