{"id":214562,"date":"2025-03-06T18:41:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=214562"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:41:26","slug":"bobby-wagner-future-signs-contract-washington-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/06\/bobby-wagner-future-signs-contract-washington-commanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Hall of Famer Signs Contract With Washington Commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>13-year veteran linebacker Bobby Wagner signed a new contract with the Washington Commanders. Wagner, a nine-time Pro Bowler and six-time First-Team All-Pro, spent the 2024 season with the Washington Commanders but also played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/seahawks\/\" target=\"_self\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/rams\/\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Commanders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Commanders<\/a> are re-signing standout LB Bobby Wagner, as the leader and playmaker is back with Washington, per me and <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MikeGarafolo<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A key piece, Wagner and the team agreed on a strong 1-year deal worth up to $9.5M with $8M guaranteed. Wagner represented himself on the deal. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z3fT4ZeCZf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Z3fT4ZeCZf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1897791810107314612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Bobby Wagner, Washington Commanders, Agree to Contract<\/h2>\n<p>Despite playing in his age-34 season, Bobby Wagner remained one of the league&#8217;s elite linebackers in 2024. Starting all 17 games for the Washington Commanders, the Utah State product finished the season with two sacks, 132 tackles, 10 tackles-for-loss, eight quarterback hits, and an 88.3 PFF grade, the 3rd-best mark out of 84 eligible linebackers. The future Hall of Famer earned Pro Bowl and Second-Team All-Pro honors as the Commanders made it to the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401671888\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NFC Championship Game<\/a>. Unfortunately, their miracle season ended on a low note after a lopsided defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Wagner originally entered the league as a second-round pick in the 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">NFL Draft<\/a>. Selected by the Seattle Seahawks, the Utah State product immediately earned a starting job and became a crucial piece of one of the NFL&#8217;s great defenses. Starting in 15 games as a rookie, Wagner recorded three interceptions, two sacks, 140 tackles, nine tackles-for-loss, and five quarterback hits while finishing second in the Defensive Rookie of the Year vote.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner proved this wasn&#8217;t a one-year fluke and quickly entered the discussion for the best linebacker in football. In 2013, he helped Seattle win their first Super Bowl in franchise history, defeating Peyton Manning&#8217;s Denver Broncos in blowout fashion. One year later, Wagner made his first Pro Bowl and First-Team All-Pro selection while also earning a surprising MVP vote. He continued his dominance throughout the 2010s and 2020s, missing the Pro Bowl just once in the past 11 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Since signing his rookie contract, Bobby Wagner has recorded 35 sacks, 1,838 tackles, 99 tackles-for-loss, and 102 quarterback hits.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Nathan Ray Seebeck &#8211; USA Today Sports via Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star linebacker Bobby Wagner, a one-time Super Bowl champion and one of the best players of his generation, has signed a new contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":214713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8896],"tags":[1051,246,8996],"class_list":["post-214562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-washington-commanders","tag-bobby-wagner","tag-nfl-news","tag-washington-commanders-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221126,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214562\/revisions\/221126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}