Brock Bowers leads the Raiders with 658 receiving yards after nine games. Jaxon Smith-Njigba blew past that number before the calendar even flipped to November. Call it a compliment (if you will) to Bowers and a warning about everyone else in the Raiders' receiver room.

The Seattle Seahawks receiver sits at 71 catches, 1,036 yards and nine touchdowns, and he's doing it a year after winning Offensive Player of the Year. Seattle has a few players I'd love to borrow, but he's the one I want in silver and black first.

He'd give the Raiders a true No. 1 receiver

Tre Tucker is the Raiders' top wide receiver with 529 yards, barely half of what Smith-Njigba has piled up. Bowers has carried the passing game from the tight end spot, and every defensive coordinator on the schedule knows it.

Smith-Njigba just became the fifth player in NFL history with 100 receiving yards in seven of his team's first eight games. Put him on one side of the field and Bowers in the middle, and somebody is getting single coverage on every snap. Defenses would have to choose between bracketing Bowers and rolling help toward Smith-Njigba, and either choice opens something up.

He also stretches the field in a way this offense hasn't. Smith-Njigba has an 82-yard catch this season, while the Raiders' longest completion all year covers 45 yards.

He makes any quarterback better

Smith-Njigba doesn't need perfect quarterback play to produce. He accounts for nearly half of the Seahawks' 2,089 passing yards, and Sam Darnold's 79.4 passer rating would sink most receivers. Smith-Njigba is still on pace to top last season's franchise-record total.

The Raiders have their own quarterback question, with rookie Fernando Mendoza starting after Kirk Cousins' trade to Minnesota. Whoever ends up taking the snaps here long term would love a target like this on the outside.

Klint Kubiak called the plays in his best season

Kubiak was Seattle's offensive coordinator last season, so he had a front-row seat for Smith-Njigba's best year. Catching passes in Kubiak's offense, Smith-Njigba posted 119 catches and 1,793 yards, both Seahawks records, and earned unanimous first-team All-Pro honors. He also led the league in receiving yards, finishing 78 ahead of Puka Nacua.

Bringing him to Las Vegas would simply mean reopening the playbook that made Smith-Njigba the league's top receiver. Few players would need less time to learn the Raiders' offense. The current version of the Raiders' passing game leans on its tight ends, and he would hand it the outside threat it has been missing all season.

He's built for the long haul

Smith-Njigba is 24 years old and owns three straight 1,000-yard seasons, joining Steve Largent and Tyler Lockett as the only Seahawks to do it. He also delivered 10 catches for 153 yards and a touchdown in last season's NFC Championship Game. On top of that, he hasn't missed a game this season.

Seattle locked him up in March with a four-year extension worth about $168 million, making him the NFL's highest-paid receiver. The Seahawks have zero reason to move him, and I wouldn't either. Still, if I could pull one player off that sideline on Sunday, it's him, and the conversation ends there.