The Seahawks’ receiver depth took a real blow Saturday, with Jake Bobo landing on injured reserve and Julian Hicks brought in to fill the vacancy.
Seattle made the move one day after Bobo was injured during a joint practice with the Tennessee Titans in Nashville. Seahawks.com reported that Bobo hurt his knee while going up for a leaping catch on Friday, and coach Mike Macdonald said afterward that the first read on the injury was discouraging.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported the roster move on X, writing:
Seahawks placed WR Jake Bobo on season-ending injured reserve, the result of the significant knee injury he suffered during Friday’s joint practice with the Titans.
Seattle signed WR Julian Hicks to fill the open roster spot.
- Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 22, 2026
Bobo’s injury unfolded along the sideline after he secured a contested catch and was then pulled awkwardly to the turf. Players from both teams dropped to a knee as he was attended to, and he was later carted off.
Macdonald was blunt about what the team was seeing. “Our heart goes out to Jake Bobo,” he said, per Seahawks.com.
“It seems like it’s going to be a serious knee. We’re going to get it imaged, but early returns, it looks like it’s a long-term injury.
That’s unfortunate.”
Quarterback Sam Darnold also weighed in, describing Bobo as a player who “brings the juice every single day,” according to ESPN. That kind of reputation matters in Seattle, where Bobo had carved out a role since making the 53-man roster in 2023 as an undrafted free agent out of UCLA.
This injury hits especially hard because Bobo had just come back from a hamstring issue the previous week, per ESPN. He also entered the offseason after the Seahawks matched the two-year, $5.5 million restricted free agent offer sheet he had signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars, keeping him in Seattle.
Bobo played in 11 games last season, finishing with two catches on two targets for 20 yards. He also got on the field in the postseason, including Seattle’s Super Bowl LX win, less than two weeks after surgery to repair a fractured hand suffered in the NFC Championship Game.
Hicks is not a stranger to the Seahawks’ building. Seattle originally signed him last weekend, then waived him to make room for cornerback Trevon Diggs, according to Seahawks.com. Now he’s back on the roster.
The 2024 undrafted free agent out of Albany began his pro career with the Green Bay Packers, spent his rookie year on their practice squad, then returned to Green Bay and went through training camp and the preseason with the team last year.
For now, Hicks joins a receiver group that still centers on Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Cooper Kupp and Rashid Shaheed. Tory Horton, who is working back from a leg injury that ended his rookie season early, and sixth-round rookie Emmanuel Henderson Jr. are also positioned for bigger opportunities behind that top trio, per ESPN’s player notes on Bobo.
Seattle’s remaining preseason snaps give Hicks his best shot to make a case before final cuts. The Seahawks host Tennessee on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on FOX, wrapping up the home-and-home stretch that started with this week’s joint practices in Nashville.
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