Yahoo Sports NFL on Jaxon Smith-Njigba
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The route concepts are so poor that there are essentially three players occupying two defenders at the top of the screen...On the interception, JSN's and Shaheed's routes again head in the same direction.
STACKED’s take
JSN's red-zone routes suffer from poor spacing and concept design; Darnold hesitation led to interception.
JSN was featured in the red zone but the source identifies route-concept issues limiting his effectiveness. On one play, the route design is so poor that three players occupy two defenders at the top of the screen with JSN clustered with everyone else, making the defense's job easy. On another red-zone opportunity, JSN was targeted after a 28-yard pass completion that moved Seattle to the 2-yard line, but the drive stalled in an interception. On the interception play itself, JSN's and Shaheed's routes head in the same direction; Darnold has JSN open at one point but hesitates and is late with the throw, resulting in the pick. The spacing issues and poor route concepts have limited JSN's red-zone production despite being targeted.
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