{"id":104812,"date":"2022-10-22T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/buckeyes-jaxon-smith-njigba-expected-to-return\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T14:04:08","slug":"buckeyes-jaxon-smith-njigba-expected-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/buckeyes-jaxon-smith-njigba-expected-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckeyes&#8217; Jaxon Smith-Njigba expected to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2022-10-22T13:05:00Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">9:05 AM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Pete Thamel<span>ESPN <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ohio State star wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba is expected to return against Iowa on Saturday, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba, who broke the Big Ten record for yards in a season in 2021, has been recovering from a hamstring injury that has limited him to parts of just two games this season.  He is expected to play significant snaps against Iowa on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn&#8217;t played since Sept.  17 against Toledo, as the Ohio State staff has handled his injury with an abundance of caution, wanting Smith-Njigba to be fully healthy before coming back on the field.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ohio State&#8217;s offense will also be boosted by the return of tailback Miyan Williams, who didn&#8217;t play two weeks ago against Michigan State because of a knee injury.  He leads the nation with 7.77 average yards per carry (60 attempts or more) and has eight TDs on just 64 carries.<\/p>\n<p>With the Buckeyes coming off a bye, the return of Smith-Njigba and Williams is expected to add an adrenaline jolt to a dynamic Ohio State offense that&#8217;s No.  1 in the nation in scoring offense (48.8) and No.  2 in total offense (543.7).<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba had 1,606 receiving yards last season, breaking the Big Ten receiving record set by Lee Evans in 2001. Smith-Njigba&#8217;s 347 receiving yards in the Rose Bowl broke both the all-time bowl and the fifth-highest single-game total in NCAA Division I history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9:05 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Ohio State star wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba is expected to return against Iowa on Saturday, sources told ESPN. Smith-Njigba, who broke the Big Ten record for yards in a season in 2021, has been recovering from a hamstring injury that has limited him to parts of just two games this &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/buckeyes-jaxon-smith-njigba-expected-to-return\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buckeyes&#8217; Jaxon Smith-Njigba expected to return<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[1832,28108,46,1827],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":111839,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jaxon-smith-njigba-cameron-brown-among-15-buckeyes-unavailable-for-ohio-states-matchup-with-penn-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":104812,"position":0},"title":"Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Cameron Brown Among 15 Buckeyes Unavailable For Ohio State&#8217;s Matchup With Penn State","date":"October 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"On Tuesday, Ryan Day said \"the plan\" was for Jaxon Smith-Njigba to play against Penn State. 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