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Smith-Njigba's Y-receiver role offers positional flexibility between slot and X-receiver.
Jaxon Smith-NjigbaWR
Y-receiver (slot receiver) as bread-and-butter role; can flex to X-receiver at times; when lined up alongside Lockett and Metcalf, typically played Y-receiver; demonstrates multi-faceted positioning flexibility to keep opposing defense guessing play-to-play.
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Both Doug Baldwin and Jaxon Smith-Njigba have played this role perfectly. Though both have lined up in different receiving roles, the Y-receiver is their bread and butter. Smith-Njigba can be seen as the X-receiver at times for the current iteration of the team; when the wide receiver trio was Lockett, Metcalf and Smith-Njigba, he was typically the Y-receiver.
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- What did Field Gulls say about Jaxon Smith-Njigba?
- Y-receiver (slot receiver) as bread-and-butter role; can flex to X-receiver at times; when lined up alongside Lockett and Metcalf, typically played Y-receiver; demonstrates multi-faceted positioning flexibility to keep opposing defense guessing play-to-play.
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- STACKED tags this as a neutral fantasy football signal for Jaxon Smith-Njigba (WR). Smith-Njigba's Y-receiver role offers positional flexibility between slot and X-receiver.
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