The Seahawks tendered restricted free agent receiver Jake Bobo on Wednesday, the team announced.
Bobo was a pending restricted free agent before the team placed the right-of-first-refusal tender on him.
Bobo can still negotiate with other teams, but the Seahawks have the right to match an offer sheet from another team. They would not receive draft compensation if they did not match that deal.
He will make $3.520 million for 2026 if he plays under the tender, but it is not guaranteed.
Bobo signed with the Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2023. He has appeared in 45 games the past three seasons, with three starts, all of which came in 2024.
He has 34 receptions for 323 yards and three touchdowns, as well as one rushing touchdown.
Bobo had two catches for 33 yards in the playoffs, including a 17-yard touchdown in Seattle’s NFC championship Game victory over the Rams.
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The well-traveled Sam Howell will be traveling again.
Via Adam Schefter of ESPN, the former Eagles backup quarterback has agreed to terms with the Cowboys.
A fifth-round pick of the Commanders in 2022, Howell was the full-year starter in 2023, leading the league in both attempts (612) and interceptions (21). He was traded to the Seahawks in 2024.
Last year, Seattle traded Howell to the Vikings. After the preseason, he was re-traded to the Eagles.
The current Cowboys understudy to Dak Prescott is Joe Milton III. The Howell arrival suggests that Will Grier won’t be back as the third quarterback. Or it could set up a potential trade of Milton, who is under contract through 2027.
The Eagles saw a number of their players agree to deals with other teams in the first two days of the free agency negotiating window and they’ve now landed an agreement with a new face for their secondary.
According to multiple reports, cornerback Riq Woolen has come to agreement with the team on terms for a one-year deal. Woolen will reportedly be able to make up to $15 million during the 2026 season.
Woolen will be leaving the reigning Super Bowl champs in his bid to help the Eagles get back to the game next February. Woolen was a Pro Bowler after being selected in the fifth round in 2022 and remained a major part of the Seahawks secondary throughout his time in Seattle. He had 41 tackles and an interception during the 2025 regular season and had eight postseason tackles to go with four passes defensed.
Woolen will join Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean in an Eagles secondary that lost safety Reed Blankenship this week.
Seahawks receiver Rashid Shaheed entered free agency on Monday. He decided to stay put.
Agent Drew Rosenhaus has announced that Shaheed will re-sign with Seattle. It’s a three-year, $51 million deal, with $34.7 million in guarantees.
The Seahawks acquired Shaheed from the Seahawks during the 2025 season for a fourth- and fifth-round pick.
While Shaheed had a significant impact as a returner and a deep threat, he was targeted only 26 times in nine regular-season games, with 15 catches. In nine games with the Saints, Shaheed was on the field for 74 percent of the offensive snaps. During nine games with Seattle, he was on the field for 48 percent of the offense snaps.
Shaheed also had 13 punt returns, including one touchdown, and 14 kickoff returns, including one touchdown, with the Seahawks.
The Seahawks are set to lose another member of their Super Bowl LX roster.
Edge rusher Boye Mafe’s agent Mike McCartney announced that his client has agreed to a three-year deal with the Bengals. Running back Kenneth Walker and safety Coby Bryant have also agreed to deals with other teams on Monday while cornerback Josh Jobe agreed to re-sign with the team.
Per multiple reports, Mafe’s deal is worth $60 million.
Mafe appeared in 65 regular season games and four playoff contests since joining the Seahawks as a 2022 fourth-round pick. He had 164 tackles, 20 sacks, three forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries in the regular season and he had seven playoff tackles. Five of those came during the team’s run to the Super Bowl title earlier this year.
The Bengals saw Joseph Ossai agree to sign with the Jets on Monday and Trey Hendrickson is expected to move on, so Mafe will be part of a new look on the edge of the Cincinnati defense.
Cornerback Josh Jobe will be back for the title defense in Seattle.
According to multiple reports, Jobe has agreed to re-sign with the Seahawks. It is reported to be a three-year deal worth $24 million.
Jobe signed with the Eagles after going undrafted out of Alabama in 2022 and signed to the Seahawks’ practice squad after being waived in Philadelphia in 2024. He appeared in 10 games that season and took on a starting role in 2025.
Jobe had 54 tackles, an interception and a half-sack in the regular season and then had 11 tackles and a forced fumble during the Seahawks’ postseason run to the Super Bowl LX title.
The Seahawks saw safety Coby Bryant agree to sign with the Bears on Monday and cornerback Riq Woolen remains on track for free agency.
The Bears are adding a Super Bowl LX champion as part of their bid to win one of their own.
According to multiple reports, they have agreed to terms with safety Coby Bryant on a three-year deal. The contract is worth $40 million.
Bryant started 15 regular season games and all three postseason games for the Seahawks during their title run. He originally joined the team as a 2022 fourth-round pick and appeared in 43 games during his first three years in Seattle.
Bryant had 66 tackles, four interceptions and a forced fumble in the 2025 regular season. He added 10 tackles during the team’s three postseason games.
From Larry Brown to Desmond Howard to Dexter Jackson to Kenneth Walker III.
There are now four Super Bowl MVPs who left weeks later in free agency.
Walker, per multiple reports, has agreed to terms with the Chiefs.
The initial wave of reports did not include financial information. Which is unusual. And which will create the impression that the agents who leaked the information didn’t feel compelled to brag about the value of the deal.
The Seahawks opted not to apply the franchise or transition tag to Walker, at $14.293 million. The top of the market exceeds $20 million per year.
This feels like one of those deals that will require a full breakdown of all relevant terms.
Either way, Walker will be the next starting running back in Kansas City. And the next question will be whether they use him as an every-down workhorse, and whether they’ll be making a renewed commitment to the run — especially as quarterback Patrick Mahomes recovers from a torn ACL and may be restricting his lateral, hair-on-fire scrambling to look for open receivers.
As the Jets cast a wide net at quarterback, they could be pursuing one who got away.
Rich Cimini of ESPN, in an item that reviews the many possibilities at the position, mentions a potential reunion with a player the Jets selected in the second round of the 2013 draft.
Yes, there’s a chance Geno Smith will be coming back to Broadway. (Or, technically, the state that adjoins it.)
Cimini notes that the Jets had “high grades” on Smith a year ago, when he was traded by the Seahawks to the Raiders for a third-round pick.
Smith’s two-year stint as the Jets’ starter ended in 2015, when he suffered a broken jaw after taking a locker-room sucker punch from IK Enemkpali in August. The former West Virginia standout stayed on the roster through the 2016 season, before embarking on a five-year run with three different teams (Giants, Chargers, Seahawks) as a backup.
Smith inherited the starting job in Seattle after the Russell Wilson trade, ending an eight-year gap as a full-time starter.
He’s due to be cut by the Raiders, unless a trade materializes. Smith is owed $18.5 million in 2026, with another $8 million fully vesting later this week.
Although Smith made $40 million last year, he’ll likely not receive an offer exceeding the $18 million he’s already guaranteed to make in 2026. He could take a one-year deal for the minimum of $1.3 million, making him a low-cost option for a team interested in his services.
Could that happen with the Jets? While the coach and G.M. have changed (multiple times) since Smith left, the Jets have the same owner — and the same fan base. If the guy who holds the pink slip and the folks who wear the green jerseys to games are fine with a reunion, a Geno revival could be a viable short-term option for coach Aaron Glenn and first-year offensive coordinator Frank Reich.
Stranger things have happened in New York sports. At a time when multiple failed Jets draft picks at quarterback have found success elsewhere, why not bring one of them back for another go?
While it could be a low-risk move from a cost standpoint, the P.R. hit could be more than the Jets are willing to endure. Last year in Las Vegas didn’t go well for Smith. If the Jets roll out the red carpet and the losses once again outpace the wins, the Jets would be welcoming even more scrutiny and criticism.
After quarterback Matthew Stafford decided in February 2025 to stay with the Rams, the Raiders needed a quarterback.
They didn’t want Sam Darnold. They traded instead for Geno Smith, reuniting him with one-and-done head coach Pete Carroll.
The Raiders gave up a third-round pick to get Smith. They paid him $40 million last year. They owe another $18.5 million this year. They’ll release him (if they can’t trade him) before another $8 million becomes fully guaranteed next Friday.
So here’s the final cost: A third-round pick, and $58.5 million (minus up to $18.5 million this year, based on what he earns elsewhere). In return, the Raiders got 15 games, two of them wins.
It’s not Smith’s fault. The Raiders didn’t have nearly enough great players. For some reason, they thought they’d be competitive last year.
The decision to move on from Smith doesn’t entirely guarantee they’ll pick Fernando Mendoza with the first overall selection in the draft. Obviously, however, the top of the depth chart will look very different in 2026.
Whatever the Raiders do, they’ll need to get it right this time around. Which will require doing a lot more than finding a quarterback.
