Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Jaxson Smith-Njigba received his AP Offensive Player of the Year Award recently, and he was not happy about it. Apparently, the back of the trophy had a couple of minor issues or molehills that Smith-Njigba used to build a mountain. For starters, instead of Offensive Player of the Year, his award said Defensive Player of theyear. That’s not a typo. The award did not put a space between the words “the” and “year”.

In response to the faux pas, Smith-Njigba took to Instagram. In an 18-second video, the former Ohio State Buckeye said, “I need to expose them,” and “The disrespect is real.” In his eyes, this is all part of a long, ongoing prank being played on him by the league. In February, at the NFL Honors show, comedian Druski butchered Smith-Njigba’s name multiple times. Just like the trophy, this was apparently intentional.

Jaxson Smith-Njigba Is Not Any Better Than The Trophy He Received

The Seahawks star is unfamiliar with mistakes, apparently. Either that, or he’s never heard of Occam’s razor, which states that, all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one. Keeping that in mind, is it more likely that the NFL told a comedian to mispronounce JSN’s name at the awards show, then found a rejected trophy and intentionally gave it to him, OR that the comedian doesn’t know who JSN is, and the third party trophy engraver made a mistake?

Smith-Njigba may have never made a mistake before, so it’s hard for him to empathize. Over the course of his three-year career, he has been targeted 282 times, and based on his quarterback’s bad throw percentage over those seasons, 225 of those were catchable balls, and he dropped 20 of them. Smith-Njigba has dropped almost one out of every 10 catchable balls thrown his way over his career. Maybe those were on purpose, just like the NFL’s head games.

“The disrespect is real.” Really? Is accidentally getting a messed-up trophy more disrespectful than asking to be the highest-paid receiver in league history, despite being the sixth-best receiver (receptions and yards) in the league over the past three years? The reality is that the NFL, the Associated Press, the fans, and the Seahawks have shown JSN nothing but respect over his entire career. There’s nothing and nobody to expose.

The league offered to send Smith-Njigba a corrected trophy and apologized for the mix-up. They owned the mistake, and the only person JSN exposed over the past four months has been himself, and the image is not pretty.