The Seahawks Just Saved Their Super Bowl Hero: Jake Bobo Is Staying in Seattle
Three days after the Jacksonville Jaguars tried to poach him, the Seahawks matched the offer sheet and kept Jake Bobo in the fold for two more seasons. And honestly? This move hits different when you remember what Bobo just did in the postseason run to the Super Bowl title.
The Jaguars came in hot with a two-year deal worth $5.5 million and up to $7 million overall, with $4.5 million guaranteed. Seattle had the right-of-first-refusal tender they'd handed out earlier this month at $3.52 million, which gave them the chance to match without losing draft picks. The Seahawks didn't waste any time deciding. They're keeping their guy.
From Afterthought to Crucial Contributor
Here's the thing about Bobo that makes this so wild: he was a healthy scratch twice late in the regular season. Injuries limited him to just 11 games and two catches in 2025, and the $3.52 million tender didn't even guarantee anything. On paper, this looked like a guy the team might be ready to move on from.
Then the playoffs happened. Bobo caught two passes for 33 yards in the postseason, including a 17-yard touchdown in the NFC title game win over the Los Angeles Rams that proved absolutely crucial. He was so valued to the team that he'd been named a special teams captain before that critical Week 18 win at San Francisco. And get this: he played in the Super Bowl despite suffering a fractured metacarpal against the Rams. The guy had surgery to insert a pin in his hand the day after the NFC championship and still showed up.
"You play with breaks," Bobo said after the Super Bowl. "It just so happens that my story is out when there are a handful of other guys that dealt with very, very similar things and played through it to be able to accomplish what we wanted to accomplish."
Building Around the Core
Coach Mike Macdonald gets it. After the Rams game, he made it crystal clear: "That's Jake Bobo. That's the guy we know, we love." The respect runs deep throughout this locker room, and it showed in the decision to match Jacksonville's offer.
Now the Seahawks have their receiving room almost completely intact. With Jaxon Smith-Njigba just becoming the highest-paid receiver in NFL history and Rashid Shaheed already re-signed, Seattle's offense is built to compete. The only loss from last season's group was Dareke Young, who signed with the Las Vegas Raiders.
Bobo came to Seattle as an undrafted free agent out of UCLA in 2023 and immediately became a locker room favorite, spawning the #MoreBobo hashtag that resonated across the fanbase. He's appeared in 45 games for the Seahawks and proved in this playoff run that you can't measure his value in regular season stats. Sometimes the clutch gene matters more than anything else, and Bobo has it.
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