Smith finished the year with 982 yards on 65 receptions and 7 touchdowns, just 18 yards shy of a 5th straight 1,000 yard receiving season.
He was third on the team in receiving last season with a career-high 40 receptions for 471 yards and a touchdown.
They also received season high 22 points in the AP Top 25 poll with a ranking of T-31.
In the history of the N.F.L., no wide receiver has had a 2,000-yard receiving season.
"Friends," which is built around the lives of a group of single people living in Manhattan, has been well received critically this season.
He is also on a pace to have the first 1,000-yard receiving season for a Giant since Lionel Manuel had 1,029 in 1988.
It was the first 1,000-yard receiving season for a Viking since 2001.
They are also ineligible for the rebate that nonluxury-tax teams will receive next season.
In 1985 he was on the way to a 1,000-yard receiving season, but pulled a hamstring.
Carl Pickens, 2nd 1000 yard receiving season (1,234 yards)