Yet in a season in which he led the league in receiving, earned All-Pro and Pro-Bowl honors, and could very well also earn AP Offensive Player of the Year honors next month, what matters most to Smith-Njigba is the team success, as he noted not long after the Seahawks beat the 49ers to clinch the NFC’s top seed and an NFC West title.
“That was my goal,” he said of the No. 1 seed. “That was a goal that we talked about since our first meeting. So it’s a blessing, it’s an honor. One down, a couple more to get.”
Fellow Seahawks receiver Cooper Kupp, one of only seven receivers with more yards in a season than Smith-Njigba (Kupp had 1,947 yards with the Rams in 2021) understands more than just about anyone what his teammate had to do to have this kind of season.
“Obviously that’s a huge accomplishment,” Kupp said. “It’s not easy. It’s something you have to do to be able to compete and produce week after week. We take a lot of pride in our overall success as an offense, some of the stuff that Zach (Charbonnet) and K9 (Kenneth Walker III) have done, what you have seen from our tight ends, and what Sam (Darnold) has done. We want to see guys produce and be a part of winning games, and certainly have some pride in having the league leader in our room.”
Williams earned his first All-Pro recognition and second straight Pro-Bowl selection in his second full season with the Seahawks after arriving in a 2023 trade. In his 11th season, Williams remains one of the NFL’s best interior linemen and one of the most valuable players on a defense that allowed the fewest points in the NFL this season. Williams tied for the team lead in sacks with 7.0, giving him 18 over the past two seasons, as well as quarterback hits with 22, while his nine tackles for loss ranked third on the team.
For Witherspoon, who earlier this year was named one of the Top 50 players in franchise history earlier this year as part of the team’s celebration of its 50th season, this is also the first time earning All-Pro honors in addition to making the Pro Bowl in each of his first three seasons. Witherspoon missed five games due to a knee injury, but in his 12 games he had 72 tackles, seven passes defensed, one interception, half a sack, a fumble recovery and two tackles for loss, strong numbers for a cornerback, but ones that don’t begin to illustrate his impact on the defense, as Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald explained last month, saying, “He’s part of the engine that makes the whole thing go. He’s probably the sparkplug behind the whole thing.”
Jones, a 2024 midseason trade acquisition, helped spearhead a midseason turnaround for Seattle’s defense last year, and has again been a centerpiece of one of the league’s best defenses in 2025, one that held opponents to a league-low 3.7 yards-per-carry average. Jones led the Seahawks both in tackles (126) and interceptions (5), and added seven passes defensed, half a sack and four tackles for loss. Jones finished tied for second in the league in interceptions, and was the only player in the league with at least 100 tackles and five interceptions.
Dickson, who has been one of the NFL’s top punters since coming into the league in 2018, averaged 49 yards per punt with a net average of 42.2, and had 20 punts downed inside the 20 compared to just three touchbacks.
The Associated Press All-Pro team is selected by a panel of 50 voters, who choose a first and second team, with first-team votes worth three points and second-team worth one point. Several other Seahawks received All-Pro votes who did not make the first or second team. Returner/receiver Rashid Shaheed narrowly missed second-team honors, receiving 24 votes as a kick returner, including seven first-place votes, and 12 votes (3 first-team) as a punt returner. Also receiving votes were kicker Jason Myers 13 (3), nickel Nick Emmanwori 6 (2), defensive tackle Byron Murphy 5 (1), safety Julian Love 3 (1), long snapper Chris Stoll 3 (1), guard Grey Zabel 3, fullback Robbie Ouzts 2, outside linebacker DeMarcus Lawrence 1, tight end AJ Barner 1 and safety Coby Bryant 1.
