Jon Bon Jovi might’ve been right, after all. You can go home again.
Bobby Wagner, the longtime Seattle Seahawks linebacker who left the franchise in a bit of a huff a couple of years ago to join their NFC West rival Los Angeles Rams, is back, and he’s ready to – well, wreck some folks.
The article (found here: Bobby Wagner still feels at top of his game returning to Seahawks for 12th season | AP News) points out that Wagner, about to start the 12th year of his NFL career, is the only member of the Seahawks’ roster remaining from their Super Bowl championship 10 years ago.
My question: was that really only 10 years ago? Wow. That seems ages ago.
At any rate, Wagner comes off a 2022 season in which he had an outstanding 140 tackles and six sacks. Not bad for a 33-year-old dude. And he’ll be patrolling NFL fields wearing his original Seahawks number, 54.
For his part, Wagner’s ready for the season to start. He’s good to go, he says.
“At the end of the day I’ve still been in the league for 12 years, so there’s a lot of bumps and bruises you could share,” Wagner said. “A lot of things that I’ve gone through that can maybe help speed up the process and make sure you don’t make the mistakes that maybe we made when we were young in the game and things of that nature.”
When Wagner and the Seahawks line up for their first game Sunday afternoon, the opponents will be none other than the Rams, a divisional game against the only other team for which Wagner has ever played.
