More Bobo? Jaguars sign Jake Bobo to offer sheet. How Seahawks can keep him

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He, the Jacksonville Jaguars and everyone else are about to find out.

The Jaguars are signing wide receiver Jake Bobo to an offer sheet as a restricted free agent. That’s per a report Friday by ESPN’s Field Yates.

General manager John Schneider and the Seahawks have five days to decide whether to match Jacksonville’s offer to the three-year veteran Seattle signed into the NFL as an undrafted rookie in 2023.

If the Seahawks don’t match, Bobo becomes a Jaguar.

If Seattle does match, Bobo returns to the defending Super Bowl-champion Seahawks for a fourth season in 2026.

Jacksonville’s offer is apparently better than $3.52 million for one season.

That’s 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.

The Jaguars are testing that right now.

Since Seattle’s 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.

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’s Seattle passing game for 2026.

Jake Bobo’s Seahawks path

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 “#MoreBobo.”

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

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

“That was a huge play for us,” Kupp said following the win that clinched Seattle’s top seed and home field through the NFC playoffs.

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

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.

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’s second NFL championship.

“I’m in a unique situation where I can’t really miss any practice, because I want to...,” Bobo said in the locker room in Santa Clara, California, last month following the Super Bowl, “because I wanted to play in this game.”

He’s one of Seattle’s “glue guys,” underappreciated outside the team for his contributions blocking, on special teams and in the locker room.

“I love Jake. The guys in here love him,” Kupp said during the Seahawks’ playoff run in January. “And he’s been a big deal, big part of our thing this year.”

The price just went up to keep Bobo to be a part of the Seahawks’ 2026.

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