By Tim Clinton
For the second time already this season Jaxon Smith-Njigba of the Seattle Seahawks has been named as one of two recipients of the FedEx Air and Ground award given out every week.
This time Smith-Njigba was honored for catching nine passes for 150 yards in the Seahawks' victory over the Kansas City Chiefs this past Sunday.
He also won the annual version of the award last year.
Former Seattle Mariners first baseman John Olerud may not have had a statue erected in his honor outside of T-Mobile Park yet, but he did have one put up for him at Washington State University.
Olerud pitched and played first base for the Cougars before going into professional baseball first with the Toronto Blue Jays and then with the New York Mets before going to the Mariners as a free agent.
He was a member of the Blue Jays from 1989-1996 and helped them win the World Series twice, then went to the Mets from 1997-1999 and to the Mariners from 2000-2004 including helping them tie the Major League record of 116 wins in 2001.
The New York Yankees picked him up at the end of 2004 and the Boston Red Sox had him in 2005.
The left-handed Olerud hit for a career .295 average with 2,239 hits, 255 home runs and 1,239 RBI.
Olerud comes from Bellevue while his father starred for Federal Way High School.
He was recognizable for wearing a batting helmet on the field to protect his head after he suffered a brain aneurysm while at WSU.
Milwaukee's Brewers, who started off as the Seattle Pilots in 1969 before moving to Wisconsin at the end of spring training in 1970, won their first ever World Series title with a 4-1 victory Wednesday over the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Brewers won all but one of the five games played in their second World Series appearance after also going in 1982 and losing in seven games to the St. Louis Cardinals.
Milwaukee was one of only five teams to have never won the World Series along with Tampa Bay -- and the Seattle Mariners.
Seattle Seahawks
2026 Schedule
Monday, Nov. 2
Chicago at Seattle, 5:15 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 8
Arizona at Seattle, 1:25 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 15
Seattle at Las Vegas, 1:05 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 29
Seattle at San Francisco, 1:25 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 7
Dallas at Seattle, 5:15 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 13
New York Giants at Seattle, 1:25 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 19
Seattle at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 25
Los Angeles Rams at Seattle, 5:15 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 3
Seattle at Carolina, 10 a.m.
Saturday, Jan. 9 or Sunday, Jan. 10
Seattle at Los Angeles Rams, TBA.