Sources - Geno Smith agrees to 3-year, $105M deal with Seahawks

The NFL's Comeback Player of the Year is coming back to Seattle.

The Seahawks and Pro Bowl quarterback Geno Smith have reached an agreement on a three-year, $105 million contract, sources confirmed to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler and Adam Schefter on Monday.

The deal includes $52 million in the first year, sources said.

Both sides had expressed optimism that a deal would get done. By reaching an agreement on Monday, they beat the Tuesday deadline for teams to apply the franchise tag, which would have carried a $32.416 million price tag for quarterbacks in 2023.

Smith, 32, was one of the biggest surprises of the 2022 NFL season, earning a Pro Bowl nod and the league's Comeback Player of the Year award after spending most of the past seven seasons as a backup.

He won the Seahawks' starting job following Russell Wilson's trade to the Denver Broncos — beating out the widely presumed favorite, Drew Lock — and delivered one of the most prolific seasons in franchise history. Playing on a one-year, $3.5 million deal, Smith led the league in completion percentage (69.8%), finished sixth in Total QBR (60.8) and finished fourth in touchdown passes (30) to lead the Seahawks to an unexpected playoff berth as the NFC's seventh seed.

That's a big jump from the 58.8% completion rate and 43.6 QBR he posted over 46 games prior to this past season.

Smith started all 17 regular-season games as well as Seattle's loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the wild-card round, didn't miss a single snap and set the Seahawks' single-season records for completion rate, completions (399) and passing yards (4,282), breaking marks that Wilson set in 16-game seasons.

Turnovers became an issue for Smith down the stretch. He threw seven of his 11 interceptions over