NFL admits mistake on Jaxon Smith-Njigba's Offensive Player of the Year trophy: 'We just had a problem spelling it'

The Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl 60, and did so on the backs of an elite defense and an MVP-performance from running back Kenneth Walker III. They didn't even need Jaxon Smith-Njigba to light it up like he did all year.

The Seahawks' top wide receiver earned the NFL Offensive Player of the Year award for putting up a remarkable season with 119 catches, 1,793 yards, and 10 touchdowns. But when he got his trophy, it read "Defensive Player of the Year" instead of "Offensive Player of the Year."

It was another mishap with his OPOY award, the first being Druski's inappropriate mispronunciation of Smith-Njigba's name when the award was announced.

After Smith-Njigba received this incorrect trophy, Ari Meirov of The 33rd Team shared an update from the NFL responding to this situation, which featured a ridiculous excuse for this embarrassing mistake.

NFL responds to OPOY trophy mistake for Jaxon Smith-Njigba

"Like the teams he played against this year, we know how great an offensive player he is.  We just had a problem spelling it," the league said, according to Meirov.

The NFL is a massive billion-dollar industry, and they somehow managed to misspell the name of Smith-Njigba's award. That's a hard-to-comprehend mistake.

But this response from the NFL, according to Meirov, is almost equally as confounding. They are writing this typo off by explaining they "had a problem spelling it."

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Sure, "Offensive" and Defensive" are similar besides their first-two letters, but this is not the kind of mistake that's acceptable to make, especially on something as important as a trophy.

Smith-Njigba deserves a lot more respect and quality-assurance than what he got from the NFL for a receiving season that's top-10 all-time.

Instead, the NFL had an embarrassing and disrespectful typo, and this explanation is an incredibly lame one. Meirov did report that the NFL is making a new trophy, but this mistake is still one that shouldn't sit well with JSN or Seahawks fans, especially with the lame response from the NFL.

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