How much did Jake Bobo want to play with his Seahawks in the Super Bowl?

He broke his hand in the NFC championship game against the Los Angeles Rams Jan. 25. The next morning, he flew to Los Angeles to have surgery. Hand specialist Dr. Steven Shin put a metal pin to stabilize Bobo’s metacarpal in the wide receiver’s right hand.

He didn’t miss a practice. He played in Super Bowl 60. He helped the Seahawks dominate the New England Patriots Feb. 8 for Seattle’s second NFL championship.

“I’m in a unique situation where I can’t really miss any practice, because I want to...,” Bobo said, “because I wanted to play in this game.”

He was holding a beer in his repaired hand. The celebration in the locker room in Santa Clara, California, was all around him immediately following the Super Bowl last month. He got interrupted by teammates pounding him on the back.

“But, yeah man, there were a few catches this week that kind of took my breath away,” Bobo said.

“But I mean, for this moment? All worth it.”

Bobo is worth $3.52 million to the Seahawks to keep.

That’s what they committed to him Wednesday. Minutes before he would have become an unrestricted free agent available to sign with any team, Bobo got a tender offer for 2026 as Seattle’s last restricted free agent.

Bobo can still negotiate with other teams. But Seahawks have a right-of-first refusal tender, thus the right to match any offer sheet from another team. Seattle would not get a draft pick back if the team that signed him as an undrafted rookie and gave him his NFL chance in 2023 did not match another team’s offer. The Seahawks would lose Bobo only in that situation. General manager John Schneider likely made the move to tender Bobo minutes before the league year began at 1 p.m. and he would have become an unrestricted free agent because the Seahawks sensed another team would have signed him away.

Signs are this is the latest in Schneider’s and coach Mike Macdonald’s moves to run it back next season with most of the core players from the Super Bowl-champion team.

More Seahawks moves

As of mid-afternoon Wednesday there had been 428 transactions this week in the NFL at the start of free agency and the new league year, per spotrac.com.

Seattle, Denver and Jacksonville are the only NFL teams which have not signed an outside free agent this week. All three were division champions and won at least 13 games last season.

On Wednesday, Pro Bowl kick returner and wide receiver Rashid Shaheed signed his three-year contract worth $51 million to come back to the Seahawks instead of test free agency.

Just as he said he would in early November when he arrived from New Orleans in a midseason trade.

“I was confident just because of the chance that Seattle took to get me here,” Shaheed told the Seahawks’ website Wednesday. “And now that I’m here, signing a contract after a Super Bowl, it means a lot for me to stay. My whole family is excited. I’m excited. And this is everything I prayed for.”

Also Wednesday, the Seahawks re-signed swing, backup offensive tackle Josh Jones to a one-year contract and long snapper Chris Stoll on a two-year deal. Jones, who turns 29 in June, was excellent replacing injured left tackle Charles Cross for three starts in key games late this past season. Stoll, 27, was the trigger man for Seattle’s best-in-the-league kicking game. He finished his third season after Seattle signed him as an undrafted rookie from Penn State in the spring of 2023.

The Seahawks also signed back starting cornerback Josh Jobe (three years, $24 million) and starting inside linebacker Drake Thomas (two seasons, $8 million, $1.5 million signing bonus)

The Seahawks have lost in free agency this week Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker (three years, $43.05 million to the Kansas City Chiefs), safety Coby Bryant (to the Chicago Bears for $40 million over three years), outside linebacker Boye Mafe ($20 million per year from the Cincinnnati Bengals) and cornerback Riq Woolen (one year, $12 million to the Philadelphia Eagles). Those four departures could net the Seahawks four compensatory draft choices in 2027, one in the fourth round and three at the end of the fifth round. That is, if the Seahawks don’t sign outside free agents that would qualify for the league-comp pick formula and offset the exits.

Jake Bobo’s value

When you look at Bobo’s statistics from this past season, you may wonder why the Seahawks just committed over $3 million to keep him for 2026.

He had two catches, 20 yards in 11 games playing 17% of the offensive snaps. He played 45% of all special-teams snaps in the 2025 regular season.

Yet Macdonald sees him as a true Seahawk, the epitome of selflessness and brotherhood that is the basis of the coach’s culture that just won the Super Bowl.

Last spring the Seahawks drafted speedy wide receiver Tory Horton. He was the star of training camp on offense. Horton took away many of the reps Bobo had gotten as a fourth wide receiver the previous two years. Then coaches realized Cody White, a practice squad player most of the previous two seasons, didn’t deserve to get cut out of the preseason. White kept making every play in the limited chances he got. He made his first NFL roster out of a preseason. That further diminished Bobo’s opportunities.

Then Bobo got concussed in late August when he own player ran into him as he was trying to catch a punt in Seattle’s final preseason game at Green Bay.

Many #Seahawks down on a knee, coach Mike Macdonald on the field hoping teammates Jake Bobo, Tyler Hall OK. down on Lambeau Field after they collided while Bobo was catching a punt.

Bobo walked then jogged straight to the locker room. Hall needed help limping off, right leg pic.twitter.com/sb13X4jmFS

— Gregg Bell (@gbellseattle) August 23, 2025

That caused him to be inactive for the season opener, Sept. 7 against San Francisco at Lumen Field. It was the first game Bobo didn’t play in his three-year NFL career.

In early October, Horton had a team-record 95-yard touchdown on a punt return. That sparked a runaway first half of Seattle’s win over New Orleans. In early November, Horton injured his shin coming out of a two-touchdown-catch game at Washington. Seahawks general manager then traded two third-day draft choices to New Orleans for Shaheed, the Saints’ 2023 All-Pro kick returner.

With Shaheed in town, Bobo became a healthy scratch. He was inactive on the sideline in team sweats watching five games.

When he was active to play, for 11 of 17 games, Bobo was primarily on special teams. He did not play more than 17 snaps on offense in a game after Shaheed arrived. Bobo played 16 with the broken, repaired hand in the Super Bowl.

The play that teammates and coaches raved about Bobo through the Seahawks’ Super Bowl victory parade through downtown Seattle last month was in week 18, at San Francisco. Needing a win over the rival 49ers to clinch the NFC West title and top seed in the conference playoffs, the Seahawks were backed up to a third and 17 in their own end leading only 10-3 late in the third quarter.

Blocking as a receiver outside right, Bobo took out three 49ers defenders as Kenneth Walker ran past him for a startling first down. That extended Seattle’s drive to Jason Myers’ field goal early in the fourth quarter, sealing a 13-3 win and home-field advantage in the playoffs to the Super Bowl.

“That was a huge one,” Seahawks wide receiver Cooper Kupp said of Bobo’s triple block.

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

“Yeah, he’s incredible,” Kupp said at the beginning of the playoffs. “I love Jake. The guys in here love him. And he’s been a big deal, big part of our thing this year.”

Macdonald had made Bobo the special-teams captain for that week-18 game at San Francisco.

“Jake’s been great....I can tell you what the coaching staff thinks of him and the job that he’s done,” Macdonald said after that game.

“Jake’s a great competitor too, and he’s a great teammate. He’s supporting the guys. But he’s also competing for that role, as well.

“That’s exactly the way that you want it where the guys are sharpening each other all the time.”