That’ll give him the practice time necessary to be ready for Week 1 while keeping him out for as long as possible.
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Chancellor might have lost some of his leverage Wednesday when fellow Pro Bowl safety Earl Thomas passed his physical and was removed from the physically-unable-to-perform list.
Per the NFL’s collective bargaining settlement, a staff can high quality a participant a most of $30,000 for every day of coaching camp he misses. And he knows. That’s what we are called to do, so we are going to do that. Chancellor still has three years left on his deal but with all the contract restructuring that has gone on with the Seahawks he saw this as an opportunity to make more money.
That suggests the ultra-popular team leader is not exactly estranged from the team during his holdout that is now eight days old and could be costing him fines up to $530,000, if the Seahawks choose to dock him for blowing off the first week of camp.
In addition to the ESPN report, Bleacher Report’s Jason Cole reported that the Seahawks and Chancellor could work on a “band-aid” deal to get him back to camp.
In an interview with SiriusXM NFL radio on Wednesday, Schneider said, “We all love Kam”. He is a phenomenal football player.
“He stays in contact with all of us”. It’s a bummer for everybody involved in the situation.
He started 2013 on the Seahawks’ practice squad then joined the active roster as a special-teams contributor in November 2013. They made a deal similar to that with running back Marshawn Lynch.
But as far as giving Chancellor a new deal, Schneider’s comments indicate that it’s not going to happen.
As teammate K.J. Wright, who signed a $27 million, four-year contract extension in December, said while discussing Chancellor’s holdout last week: “We are trying to make this last for our grandkids. In order for us to be a consistent championship-caliber team that we’ve been preaching ever since we got here, we have to continue to conduct business the way we always have”. That being said though, Seattle GM John Schneider has already made it clear that he wants to keep negotiations peaceful and keep an open line of communication with his hard-hitting safety.
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“I support him in whatever he’s doing”, Sherman said “Whenever you take a stand like this, you don’t get a lot of support from fans because the fans feel like, ‘You know about honoring contracts.'”.
