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Jaxon Smith-Njigba is among those happy for Offensive Rookie of the Year Garrett Wilson

Ohio State players stick together.

Syndication: The Columbus Dispatch
Syndication: The Columbus Dispatch
Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK

The New York Jets are the cool kids of the NFL.

By kids I mean literally. The Jets went home with both the Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year Awards this season with Garrett Wilson taking home the former and Sauce Gardner the latter. It is pretty rare for a team to clean up like that.

With all due respect to Gardner and his incredible rookie season it was Wilson who caught the attention of some players who are hoping to be a rookie of the year themselves come next February. I am specifically talking about Ohio State wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba who just saw fellow Buckeye Garrett Wilson go from catching passes in Columbus to sharing a stage with Kelly Clarkson. Talk about goals.

JSN talked about how proud he is of Wilson and a bunch of other things when he stopped by Blogging The Boys on Friday in the lead up to the Super Bowl. I obviously asked him how he would like to play for his hometown team in the Dallas Cowboys and he seems quite excited about the idea. You can watch our entire interview here.

Jaxon joined us on behalf of Panini. Panini America is hosting Trevon Diggs along with several other NFL players and draft prospects at the Panini Prizm VIP event in Phoenix ahead of Super Bowl weekend. Panini is the exclusive trading card partner of the NFL. You can get Panini NFL Trading Cards at Walmart, Target and hobby stores nationwide, and you can also start collecting your favorite NFL players as NFTs on the Panini America platform at www.PaniniAmerica.net.

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