We now know how much “More Bobo” is worth to the Seahawks.
The Super Bowl champions will match the offer Jake Bobo got from the Jacksonville Jaguars and will re-sign their wide receiver, special-teams mainstay and popular locker-room guy to a new, two-year contract.
Agent Steve Caric confirmed to The News Tribune on Monday morning Bobo will get a two-year deal worth $5.5 million, with $4.5 million of that guaranteed, to stay with Seattle. The contract includes a $1.75 million signing bonus. The maximum value could reach $7 million with incentives and bonuses through the 2027 season.
The base value of $5.5 million is twice what Bobo has earned in his first three NFL seasons with Seattle, combined.
The average of $2.75 million per year is less than what the Seahawks had planned to pay Bobo for this year, after they tendered the 27-year-old Massachusetts native as a restricted free agent March 11.
It’s the latest in general manager John Schneider’s and coach Mike Macdonald’s moves this month to run it back in 2026 with most of the core players from the Super Bowl-champion team.
The Seahawks signed Bobo into the NFL as a rookie free agent from UCLA and Duke in the spring of 2023.
His deal to stay came on the same morning the Seahawks signed All-Pro wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba to a four-year, $168.6 million contract extension that is the NFL’s richest at the position.
The Seahawks tendered an offer to Bobo on March 11 just before the start of the new league year. That was the deadline to tender restricted free agents, or else Bobo would have become an unrestricted free agent available to all teams to sign. Seattle tendered him an offer at $3.5 million for 2026, with the right of first refusal.
Bobo visited Jacksonville. The Jaguars’ rich offer late last week had many believing Bobo was about to leave for north Florida.
But league rules in the collective bargaining agreement gave the Seahawks five days to match the offer to Bobo, to keep him.
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Jake Bobo (19) looks on before the game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Lumen Field, on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025, in Seattle. Brian Hayes bhayes@thenewstribune.com
Why did they do it?
Macdonald, Schneider and Bobo’s teammates value him for far more than his two receptions for 20 yards in 11 regular-season games in 2025. He played just 17% of offensive snaps for Seattle this past season.
Bobo became a folk hero in the Pacific Northwest while playing every game his first two seasons as an unlikely fixture as an undrafted rookie. This past season he was a healthy scratch for five games, on the sidelines watching in sweats instead of playing, after Rashid Shaheed arrived in a November trade from New Orleans.
Yet Bobo is one of the Seahawks’ “glue guys.” He is renowned inside the locker room for his blocking, his selfless play on special teams and his humor.
He blocked three defenders out of Kenneth Walker’s way on a crucial third and 17 that keyed the Seahawks’ win at San Francisco in week 18. That 13-3 victory in early January clinched the NFC West for Seattle and the top seed with home field through the conference’s playoffs.
Jake Bobo took out three 49ers defenders–“not on purpose,” he said—blocking outside right on Kenneth Walker’s key 19-yard run 3rd & 17, 3Q of #Seahawks‘ NFC West title-game win at San Francisco.
“I’ll take it,” Bobo told me. “Just get a piece of who you’re supposed to get.” pic.twitter.com/vtG5EKWWjD
— Gregg Bell (@gbellseattle) January 9, 2026
After that game, Bobo shrugged off his triple block as … his job.
“Yeah, man,” he said, “just get a piece of who you’re supposed to get.”
He played Super Bowl 60 last month after having surgery 13 days before for a broken hand. That was after he played through the NFC championship game Jan. 25 with a broken metacarpal in his right hand. He flew to Los Angeles the next morning for the surgery.
He didn’t miss a practice to play in the Super Bowl, Seattle’s domination of New England for the Seahawks’ second NFL title.
“I’m in a unique situation where I can’t really miss any practice, because I want to …,” Bobo said in the locker room following the team’s Super Bowl win, “because I wanted to play in this game.”
He was holding a beer in his repaired right hand.
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Jake Bobo (19) walks into the tunnel during warm-ups prior to the start of Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium on Feb. 8, 2026 in Santa Clara, Calif. Brian Hayes bhayes@thenewstribune.com
“Yeah, he’s incredible. I love Jake. The guys in here love him,” wide receiver and 2022 Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp said during the Seahawks’ playoff run in January.
“And he’s been a big deal, big part of our thing this year.”
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Jake Bobo (19) high-fives fans before the game against the Houston Texans at Lumen Field, on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, in Seattle. Brian Hayes bhayes@thenewstribune.com
This story was originally published March 23, 2026 at 12:05 PM.
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Gregg Bell is the Seahawks and NFL writer for The News Tribune. He is a two-time Washington state sportswriter of the year, voted by the National Sports Media Association in January 2023 and January 2019. He started covering the NFL in 2002 as the Oakland Raiders beat writer for The Sacramento Bee. The Ohio native began covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season of 2005. In a prior life he graduated from West Point and served as a tactical intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, so he may ask you to drop and give him 10.
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