Jaxon Smith-Njigba Snags a Record-Setting WR Contract
Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans
Brandan Schulze
4.7 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The Seattle Seahawks reset the top end of the NFL wide receiver market by extending Jaxon Smith-Njigba on a four-year, $168.6 million deal, making him the highest-paid WR ever and effectively keeping him in Seattle for six more seasons. The contract structure is team-friendly early, with manageable cap hits now and a deal that could look like a bargain as the market rises. Seattle also matches Jacksonville's two-year, $5.5 million offer sheet for restricted free agent Jake Bobo, locking in a depth piece with incentives and guarantees. The contract reduces the cap hit for Bobo in 2026 and keeps him locked in for 2027. Is Devon Witherspoon the next guy to get a new deal and could an looming ownership change be propelling deals to get done sooner than later?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Seahawkers podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Brandon Shultz, and I am joined by my good buddy Clinton Bonner as we are reacting to the news. |
| 0:17.0 | On this Monday, March 23rd, as the Seahawks have locked up their offensive player of the year, |
| 0:25.1 | the four-year record setting extension. |
| 0:28.8 | And there's some Jake Bobo news there, too. |
| 0:30.9 | So how are you doing, Clint? |
| 0:32.2 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:34.5 | Happy, proud for JSN. Happy for all 12s for the whole flock. Hey, it's a great thing when |
| 0:42.6 | you draft really, really well, and then you get to retain your best players. And yeah, |
| 0:47.0 | you got to, you know, we got to pay the piper. Brandon, that's how this works in the NFL and |
| 0:50.9 | why receivers are going for a certain dollar amount and all that. |
| 0:55.3 | We have JSN for six more years. |
| 0:58.2 | The dude is about 24 years old. |
| 1:00.8 | So we have JSN from the next 24 year old to he's 30. |
| 1:05.2 | Like, yes, please. |
| 1:06.8 | What a win. |
| 1:08.1 | And doing it early, the average is a okay, man. Like three, four years now it's going to be like, oh, what a win and doing it early the average is a okay man like but three four years now it's |
| 1:13.7 | gonna be like oh what a bargain for j freaking s and so dude i'm in yes it uh it's an easy deal to make |
| 1:20.7 | because shoot when you're the best wide receiver in the nfl and uh i just have an idea that |
| 1:27.3 | maybe this was one of the easier contracts to do. |
| 1:29.9 | Although there's maybe something to be said about him taking his money early, not waiting |
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