BREAKING: Seattle Seahawks Releasing 8-Time All-Pro & Pro Bowl LB Bobby Wagner

March 8, 2022, 9:18pm EST (Updated: January 31, 2023, 7:41pm)By Darrelle Lincoln

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – JANUARY 02: Bobby Wagner #54 of the Seattle Seahawks looks on before the game against the Detroit Lions at Lumen Field on January 02, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

The Seattle Seahawks are truly in rebuold mode.

Hours after trading Russell Wilson to the Denver Broncos, the team was said to inform linebacker Bobby Wagner he would be released.

Seahawks informed eight-time All-Pro and Pro-Bowl LB Bobby Wagner, a franchise icon, that they are releasing him, per source.

Wagner arrived in Seattle on the same 2012 day as Russell Wilson and now leaves the same day, too. End of an era in Seattle.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 9, 2022

The 31-year-old is a former second-round pick by the Seahawks out of Utah State in the 2012 NFL Draft. Wagner was entering the final year of that deal in 2022 and scheduled to make a base salary of $16.35 million.

In 2021, Wagner appeared in 16 games for the Seahawks and recorded 170 total tackles, three tackles for loss, one sack, one interception, one forced fumble and five pass defenses.