The Seattle Seahawks’ receiving corps took a major setback on Tuesday with information that first-round rookie Jaxon Smith-Njigba will want surgical procedure on his injured wrist. Smith-Njigba suffered a “slight fracture” in response to head coach Pete Carroll, and the optimistic timetable is that he’s again after “3-to-4 weeks.”
It’s believed that Smith-Njigba sustained the harm falling to the turf after being tackled on his 48-yard catch-and-run towards the Dallas Cowboys final Saturday evening. JSN didn’t return to the sport after this play.
We’re lower than three weeks out from the common season opener towards the Los Angeles Rams, so it’s a close to certainty that the Seahawks will probably be with out JSN for Week 1. The worst case state of affairs could be Smith-Njigba being positioned on short-term injured reserve, which might put him out for 4 video games and he wouldn’t be obtainable till after the bye week.
With JSN on the mend, Dee Eskridge injured (as typical) and suspended anyway, and Dareke Younger doubtlessly going through his personal surgical procedure with an abductor concern, Jake Bobo is kind of presumably the WR3 by default on opening day.
