Jake Bobo Just Got Paid to Stay: The Move That Shows the Seahawks Know What They Have
The Seahawks made it official on Tuesday, and the news had to feel good in the locker room: Jake Bobo is staying put. The wide receiver signed a two-year deal after Seattle matched an offer sheet from Jacksonville, and just like that, one of the most popular guys in the building locked in his future in Seattle. This was never complicated. Bobo wanted to be here. The Seahawks wanted him here. Now it is done.
Bobo Gets Paid, Jacksonville Gets Nothing
Here is how it went down: Bobo was tendered as a restricted free agent, which would have locked him in at a one-year, nonguaranteed $3.52 million deal. But the tender rules allowed him to shop around, and Jacksonville did exactly that on Friday with a two-year offer sheet. The Seahawks had five days to match. They did it with one day to spare.
The new deal? Two years, $5.5 million in base value with $4.5 million guaranteed. After playing the last three seasons as an undrafted free agent out of UCLA since 2023, Bobo finally has some real security. The #MoreBobo movement on social media proved he had connected with fans, but last year was rough: injuries limited him to 11 games and just two catches, and he was even a healthy scratch twice late in the season. A lot of teams would have let him walk. The Seahawks did not.
Bobo's Message: This City is Home
When Bobo talked to Seahawks.com, he made it crystal clear where his head was at. "I didn't want to go anywhere else," he said. "Obviously, it looked like there was a shot I was going to end up in Jacksonville, but in the back of my mind, I was hoping the guys upstairs would make something happen, and they did."
Even better, he doubled down on what really matters to him: "When you think about this organization, who the guys are in the locker room, who the staff is upstairs, all of that comes secondary to what's really important, which is, I want to play for this organization, this city, and the guys in the locker room. If you're giving me the choice, I'm choosing this place 10 out of 10 times."
The Bobo Deal Caps Off a Big Day
Bobo was not the only one putting pen to paper Tuesday. The Seahawks also made official the signings of cornerback Shemar Jean-Charles and safety D'Anthony Bell, who had agreed to deals earlier this month. Bell spent last year as a reserve safety and special-teams contributor, notching 14 games, two starts, 15 tackles, and a blocked punt against New Orleans before being waived and claimed by Carolina. He missed the playoff run, but he is happy to be back. "It was definitely bittersweet not being able to play in the Super Bowl," Bell told Seahawks.com, "but everything happens for a reason."
Jean-Charles has 29 games of NFL experience dating back to 2021 and spent the entire 2025 season on the practice squad before this signing.
With these three deals locked in, the Seahawks are nearly done with their free-agent business. Of the 18 unrestricted or restricted free agents the team had, 12 have re-signed, five have left for other teams, and only one remains pending: linebacker Chazz Surratt, who reportedly agreed to return but has not yet signed. The offseason is coming into focus.
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