{"id":69757,"date":"2026-03-23T11:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/seahawks-to-make-168m-jaxon-smith-njigba-highest-paid-wide-receiver-in-nfl-history\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:58:15","slug":"seahawks-to-make-168m-jaxon-smith-njigba-highest-paid-wide-receiver-in-nfl-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/seahawks-to-make-168m-jaxon-smith-njigba-highest-paid-wide-receiver-in-nfl-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks to make $168m Jaxon Smith-Njigba highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>First-team All Pro expected to get $120m guaranteed<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>PLayer was NFL Offensive Player of the Year for 2025<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seattle Seahawks star Jaxon Smith-Njigba recently said he expects to become the highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history. He got his wish with a four-year, $168.6m contract extension that includes $120m guaranteed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48286903\/sources-seahawks-jaxon-smith-njigba-agrees-record-extension\">according to multiple reports<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba\u2019s $42.15m annual salary surpasses Cincinnati Bengals star Ja\u2019Marr Chase, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/72384\/jamarr-chase\">who averages $40.25m a season<\/a> on his four-year, $161m deal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/23\/jaxon-smith-njigba-seattle-seahawks-contract-nfl\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-team All Pro expected to get $120m guaranteed PLayer was NFL Offensive Player of the Year for 2025 Seattle Seahawks star Jaxon Smith-Njigba recently said he expects to become the highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history. He got his wish with a four-year, $168.6m contract extension that includes $120m guaranteed, according to multiple reports on &#8230; <a title=\"Seahawks to make $168m Jaxon Smith-Njigba highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/seahawks-to-make-168m-jaxon-smith-njigba-highest-paid-wide-receiver-in-nfl-history\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Seahawks to make $168m Jaxon Smith-Njigba highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}