Cody White re-signs with Seahawks.

Published 11:34 am Thursday, March 19, 2026

Cody White has played for five NFL teams.

In six seasons, he’s had 37 transactions onto and off teams. Onto and off practice squads. Waived. Signed. Waived again. That’s included seven different times by the team his father Sheldon is a front-office executive for, the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Sheldon White is the Steelers executive who usually tells players they are cut. Pittsburgh’s general manager, Omar Khan, wouldn’t let that happen when the team waived White. So Khan told Cody White he was cut.

That was in summer 2023. The Seahawks signed him to their practice squad that October.

Last summer he made the team, the first time in his NFL career he’d made a 53-man active roster coming out of a preseason.

White’s reaction that August day last year: “I can finally call my momma and tell her I MADE IT!!”

Last fall, in the Seahawks’ win at Washington in early November, White scored his first NFL touchdown.

He kept the ball — to give to Mom, Amy White, back home in Novi, Michigan.

Yes, Cody White has found his NFL home. And he’s staying.

The team’s last remaining free agent signed with Seattle on Wednesday. The Seahawks announced the 27-year-old wide receiver signed his contract at team headquarters Wednesday morning. He’s the third wide receiver the Seahawks have brought back off their Super Bowl-champion team this past season. Rasheed Shaheed is returning on a $51 million, three-year contract. He chose that instead of leaving in free agency this month. The team also tendered a contract for 2026 to restricted free agent Jake Bobo.

White’s contract likely follows what general manager John Schneider has done in the last week, during the secondary waves of free agency after his rich re-signing of Shaheed: one-year, low-cost deals near the league minimum salary for veteran players.

“I bounced around from a bunch of different teams, not knowing if I’d be able to stick or not and finally finding a home in Seattle. It’s been amazing for me,” White told the team’s website after he signed.

“Going back for another Super Bowl. That’s the only thing. The only mission. The only goal.” Seattle’s free agency

White is the last of the 18 unrestricted, restricted and exclusive-rights free agents the Super Bowl champions had this month to sign with a team or have Seattle tender a contract. That’s been in the nine days since the league’s market opened for 2026.

The final count for the Seahawks of their 18:

Re-signed (10): Shaheed, White, cornerback Josh Jobe, linebacker Drake Thomas, special-teams fullback Brady Russell, offensive tackle Josh Jones, special-teams linebacker Chazz Surratt, defensive tackle Brandon Pili, safety A.J. Finley, long snapper Chris Stoll

Tendered contracts for 2026 (3): wide receiver Jake Bobo, safety Ty Okada, running back George Holani.

Signed with other teams (5): running back and Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker (to the Chiefs), safety Coby Bryant (to the Bears), linebacker Boye Mafe (to the Bengals), cornerback Riq Woolen (to the Eagles) and wide receiver Dareke Young (to the Raiders). The Seahawks also in the secondary wave of free agency signed four players from other teams.

New running back Emanuel Wilson from Green Bay (one year, $1,595,000) will have the opportunity to compete for the lead-back role with Holani and Kenny McIntosh. That is pending how McIntosh returns from a season-ending knee injury last summer. This week he posted online video of him running in shallow water of a swimming pool.

That’s with Walker gone to Kansas City, and with running back Zach Charbonnet (12 touchdowns in 2025) recovering into the fall from reconstructive knee surgery from his injury in the playoff game against San Francisco in January.

Seattle also in the last week signed four-year veteran safety Rodney Thomas II, a starter with the Colts in his first two NFL seasons, plus cornerback and former first-round pick Noah Igbinoghene from the Commanders.

The Seahawks also signed back safety D’Anthony Bell. He primarily played special teams for Seattle this past season into January. The team waived him. Carolina signed then released Bell.

Bringing back many of the team’s core players to the league’s top-ranked special-teams unit from 2025 has been another of Schneider’s priorities this month. Russell has been the special-teams units’ captain for games. White, Bell, Surratt, Bobo, Holani, Stoll, Pili, Okada and Finley have all had multiple, impactful roles on the Seahawks kick-game units.

What’s next for Seahawks?

White’s re-signing as the team’s last free agent doesn’t mean the Seahawks are done shopping in the market.

Seattle was as of Wednesday afternoon $39.3 million under the NFL salary cap for 2026. That was the seventh-most space in the league.

Schneider has signed these low-cost free agents with an eye to his team’s priority: To re-sign NFL offensive player of the year Jaxon Smith-Njigba and three-time Pro Bowl cornerback Devon Witherspoon to contract extensions this summer. They will be entering training camp in late July into the final years of their rookie deals. Each will command salaries at the top of their positions, perhaps $40 million per year for Smith-Njigba at wide receiver and maybe $30 million per season for Witherspoon.

The Seahawks have four picks in the draft that begins April 23. They still have needs to add to depth at running back, cornerback, offensive line, defensive line and linebacker.

Ten of Seattle’s 11 regulars from the offense that set a franchise record for points are signed and returning for 2026.

Jobe re-signing while letting Woolen leave for $12 million and one year to Philadelphia showed coach Mike Macdonald has chosen his starting cornerback opposite Witherspoon for the next couple of years. That choice means 10 of Seattle’s 11 regulars on the league’s top-ranked defense return as well.

Bryant is the only full-time defender who won’t return. Jobe and Woolen had a job share in a rotation at cornerback. Mafe played only 50% of the defense’s snaps in 2025.