You wished Bobby Wagner again with the Seattle Seahawks? You bought your want.
The legendary linebacker signed a one-year contract value as much as $7 million to reunite with the workforce he starred on for the primary 10 seasons of his Corridor of Fame profession. Wagner was launched final yr by the Seahawks as a cap casualty, becoming a member of his hometown Los Angeles Rams as a free agent. When information of Wagner’s impending launch from the Rams was made public, there was loads of want from Seahawks followers to convey Bobby again, particularly with Jordyn Brooks on the mend following his ACL tear.
Wagner spoke with the Seattle Occasions on Sunday about his return to the Pacific Northwest, together with this attention-grabbing line that signifies one other massive payday was secondary in figuring out the place he’d play subsequent.
“I’ve made some huge cash over my profession,’’ Wagner stated. “And so I feel I’m on the level the place I simply wish to go the place I’m blissful, and so I used to be simply actually pulling for this to work out.’’
It was round this time final yr that Wagner’s launch (or information of it, at the very least) and the Russell Wilson commerce had been reported on the identical day. This might’ve been seen as the tip of the best period of Seahawks soccer; traditionally talking Pete Carroll and John Schneider haven’t introduced again too many key gamers from the 2012-2014 squads for a late-career reunion. Often an excessive emergency has to occur (see: Byron Maxwell in 2017, Marshawn Lynch in 2019) for that to materialize. Wagner didn’t anticipate to be an exception to the rule.
“I didn’t suppose that this was within the playing cards,’’ Wagner stated. “I feel it was identical to how the whole lot occurred and simply them eager to go youthful (with Brooks and Cody Barton) and issues of that nature, I believed this wasn’t essentially within the playing cards. After which, clearly, I believed the Rams scenario would in all probability go a bit bit completely different than it did. However I’m proud of the result.’’
Chances are you’ll recall that when Wagner was let go by the Rams, Quandre Diggs couldn’t wait to recruit him. In spite of everything, one of many remaining pictures of Wagner’s tenure with the Rams was Diggs gesturing in direction of him on the sideline after a season-saving interception in time beyond regulation. I’d say the mission was profitable, so it’s solely becoming that Quandre broke the information on his Twitter account.
“I wished Quandre to be the one to type of let everyone know simply because I type of wished to point out him my love and appreciation for what he was doing,’’ Wagner stated. “Nevertheless it was loopy. I wasn’t capable of see the whole lot (all the net response) however what I noticed was lots of people that had been blissful, and a metropolis that was blissful and it simply felt proper and simply felt I used to be (again in) my soccer house.’’
Welcome house, Bobby.
