{"id":201063,"date":"2026-03-22T04:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201063\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:44:22","slug":"jaguars-sign-jake-bobo-to-offer-sheet-seahawks-can-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201063\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars sign Jake Bobo to offer sheet, Seahawks can match"},"content":{"rendered":"

How much do the Seahawks want \u201cMore Bobo\u201d?<\/p>\n

He, the Jacksonville Jaguars and everyone else are about to find out.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars are signing wide receiver Jake Bobo to an offer sheet as a restricted free agent, after he visited Jacksonville. That\u2019s per the NFL\u2019s official transactions for Friday.<\/p>\n

General manager John Schneider and the Seahawks have five days to decide whether to match Jacksonville\u2019s offer to the three-year veteran Seattle signed into the NFL as an undrafted rookie in 2023.<\/p>\n

If the Seahawks don\u2019t match, Bobo becomes a Jaguar.<\/p>\n

If Seattle does match, Bobo returns to the defending Super Bowl-champion Seahawks for a fourth season in 2026.<\/p>\n

Jacksonville\u2019s offer is apparently better than $3.52 million for one season.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Schneider and Seattle committed to Bobo about an hour before the start of the league year March 11. The team tendered him a contract as a restricted free agent. That was to keep him from going onto the market for the first time as an unrestricted free agent. The Seahawks gave Bobo a right-of-first-refusal tender, at a rate of $3.52 million.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars are testing that right now.<\/p>\n

Since Seattle\u2019s choice to tender Bobo, the Seahawks have re-signed Pro Bowl kick returner and wide receiver Rashid Shaheed. Shaheed got a three-year, $51 million contract.<\/a><\/p>\n

At $17 million per season, Shaheed is likely to take a larger role at wide receiver with returning NFL offensive player of the year Jaxon Smith-Njigba and former Rams Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp in quarterback Sam Darnold\u2019s Seattle passing game for 2026.<\/p>\n

\"Seattle 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 Jake Bobo\u2019s Seahawks path<\/p>\n

Bobo, 27, played for Duke then one final college season at UCLA. He became a Pacific Northwest icon for making the Seahawks team as a surprise, undrafted rookie in the summer of 2023. He caught 32 passes with three touchdowns in his first two NFL seasons for Seattle. Seahawks fans began heralded him online with social-media hashtags \u201c#MoreBobo.\u201d<\/p>\n

He had only two receptions in the 2025 regular season, which began after he was concussed in the team\u2019s final preseason game. Bobo was a healthy scratch inactive for five games after Shaheed arrived in early November in a trade from New Orleans.<\/p>\n

For 2026, Bobo fits as an extra wide receiver skilled and willing at blocking. He blocked three 49ers defenders on a key run<\/a> for a first down by Kenneth Walker on a third and 17 in the Seahawks\u2019 NFC West-clinching win at San Francisco in the 2025 regular-season finale.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>‘ NFC West title-game win at San Francisco.<\/p>\n

“I’ll take it,” Bobo told me. “Just get a piece of who you’re supposed to get.” pic.twitter.com\/vtG5EKWWjD<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Gregg Bell (@gbellseattle) January 9, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a huge play for us,\u201d Kupp said following the win that clinched Seattle\u2019s top seed and home field through the NFC playoffs.<\/p>\n

Bobo caught a touchdown pass early in the third quarter of the NFC championship game Jan. 25. That was on Seattle\u2019s way to a 31-27 victory over the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>, the win that got the Seahawks into Super Bowl 60.<\/p>\n

Bobo broke his hand in that game. The next morning, he flew to Los Angeles to have surgery by specialist Dr. Steven Shin. Bobo returned to Seattle and did not miss a practice. He played the Super Bowl with a metal pin in his right hand, to stabilize his metacarpal.<\/p>\n

He played 16 snaps on offense and 19 on special teams to help the Seahawks dominate the New England Patriots Feb. 8 to win Seattle\u2019s second NFL championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in a unique situation where I can\u2019t really miss any practice, because I want to…,\u201d Bobo said in the locker room in Santa Clara, California, last month following the Super Bowl, \u201cbecause I wanted to play in this game.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s one of Seattle\u2019s \u201cglue guys,\u201d underappreciated outside the team for his contributions blocking, on special teams and in the locker room.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Jake. The guys in here love him,\u201d Kupp said during the Seahawks\u2019 playoff run in January. \u201cAnd he\u2019s been a big deal, big part of our thing this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The price just went up to keep Bobo to be a part of the Seahawks\u2019 2026.<\/p>\n

\"Seattle 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 <\/p>\n

This story was originally published March 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

Gregg Bell<\/a><\/p>\n

The News Tribune<\/p>\n

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.
\n Support my work with a digital subscription<\/a>
\n