What To Watch In The Seahawks Week 11 Sport at Los Angeles

Sunday’s recreation figures to be a big one for each of Seattle’s prime two pass-catchers. For Smith-Njigba, the league’s main receiver by a large margin, it’s a likelihood so as to add on to what has been an exceptional first half to his season. The third-year receiver eclipsed 1,000 yards in simply 9 video games whereas going over the 100-yard mark in six of 9 video games. With one other 100-yard recreation, Smiht-Njigba would move Steve Largent for probably the most in in a season in staff historical past, and if he will get to 75 yards, he can be the primary participant within the Super Bowl period to have not less than 75 receiving yards in every of the primary 10 video games of a season.

“I said my rookie year, ‘just because he didn’t have the numbers everybody else thought he would have, y’all just don’t know what he has in store for y’all,'” mentioned fellow 2023 first-round decide Devon Witherspoon. “We always expected him to be this guy, now he got a chance to show it, and everybody gets a chance to see it now, of course.”

Kupp, in the meantime, is conserving the concentrate on treating this identical to every other recreation, however whether or not he needs to view it this manner or not, it’s a likelihood for him to indicate the Rams that he nonetheless has loads of left within the tank after they elected to maneuver on from him in a salary-cap saving transfer this offseason. Kupp, a Yakima native, returned to his residence state this offseason, signing with Seattle after eight seasons with the Rams, a run that included a historic 2021 season by which he led the league in receiving yards, catches and touchdowns earlier than occurring to win Super Bowl MPV honors to cap off the season.

Kupp hasn’t seen the amount of targets he was used to for many of his time with the Rams, however he has nonetheless been extremely productive when focused, and he is additionally supplied a ton of worth to the staff with every part he does exterior of the three hours the staff takes the sector on Sundays.

“He’s incredible,” Darnold mentioned. “I feel like I talk about it a lot, but just the work that he puts in, it’s unlike anyone else that I’ve ever met. He’s been a huge fit for us as an offense with just the way that he works and just the things he can do on the field as well. He’s also been a huge catalyst for bringing these guys together and bringing the team together too. This is probably the understatement of the year, but he’s a very important piece of what we’re building here.”