The Bengals signed Boye Mafe to a three-year contract through the 2028 season on Thursday, March 12, 2026. Mafe, originally a second-round pick by the Seattle Seahawks in 2022, has played in 65 career games with 34 starts and compiled 161 total tackles, 24 TFLs, 20 sacks, 14 passes defensed, three forced fumbles. He was a member of the 2025-26 Seattle team that won Super Bowl LX.
2025: Played in 17 games (4 starts)... Tallied 31 tackles, two sacks, five passes defensed and a forced fumble... Racked up three pressures (per PFF) and a QB hit in Super Bowl LX victory over Patriots.
2024: Played in 15 games (11 starts)... Posted 6.0 sacks, 40 total tackles, eight tackles for loss, three passes defensed and a forced fumble
2023: Played and started in 16 games... Led Seattle with a career-high nine sacks, and registered at least 1.0 sack in seven-consecutive games, the longest streak in franchise history... Totaled 52 tackles, six passes defensed and two fumble recoveries
2022: Played in all 17 games (three starts) during rookie campaign, tallying 38 tackles and 3.5 sacks... Part of Seattle's productive rookie class which finished second in the NFL with a combined 4,868 offensive and defensive snaps played.
Played in 42 career games at Minnesota with 14 starts and made 87 tackles (59 solo), 19.5 tackles for loss and 15 sacks (ninth all-time in school history)... Forced three fumbles and broke up three passes... Named All-Big Ten second-team by the media in 2021, All-Big Ten third-team by conference coaches in 2021, All-Big Ten honorable mention in 2020 and was Academic All-Big Ten in 2020 and 2021.
