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

NFL admits mistake on Jaxon Smith-Njigba's Offensive Player of the Year trophy: 'We just had a problem spelling it' originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . 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.