Seahawks BREAKING: Bobby Wagner Returning to Seattle - Details
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The Seattle Seahawks - and most notably veteran safety Quandre Diggs - have had their wish granted.
Legendary Seahawks linebacker and nine-time All-Pro Bobby Wagner is returning to Seattle on a one-year, $7 million deal. The Score's Jordan Schultz was the first to report the news on Saturday.
Wagner had signed with the Los Angeles Rams last offseason after a less-than-perfect departure from the Seahawks, who released him in March 2022. He joined LA thinking that another Super Bowl was on the horizon, but instead it was the Seahawks who made the playoffs while the Rams finished with a brutal 5-12 record.
Diggs has been recruiting Wagner for nearly the entire offseason, and his hard work has now paid off. He told AllSeahawks.com that the interest was mutual from the beginning.
"I wouldn't put it out there if there wasn't interest," Diggs said in an interview with the Locked On Seahawks podcast and AllSeahawks.com's Corbin K. Smith. "I think it's interest from both sides. I mean, with Bob, I think the things that happened last year are kind of in the past, and I hope he's just able to kind of rekindle that fire and we will be a match made in heaven for him and we can get that done. Everybody in the locker room would love to have him back."
Wagner now re-joins a Seahawks team that's coming off of a surprising playoff appearance this past season. His re-arrival solidifies that Seattle has playoff-or-bust expectations in 2023.
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