The year-end honors kept coming for the Seattle Seahawks on Wednesday when wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba won the prestigious Offensive Player of the Year from the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA). Smith-Njigba became just the second Seahawk player to win the award, following Shaun Alexander in 2005.
That year, Alexander was also awarded the PFWA’s MVP honor. This year, that went to Rams’ quarterback Matthew Stafford, the last obstacle to Seattle’s fourth Super Bowl appearance in a couple of weeks.
Cleveland’s Myles Garrett, who set a single-season sack record in 2025, was named the Defensive Player of the Year.