Seahawks safety Earl Thomas has made it clear that he won’t be showing up in Seattle without a new deal Womens Tom Pyatt Jersey , and that without a new deal he wants a trade to a new team. The Seahawks aren’t likely to budge.
As one league source recently explained it to PFT, Seahawks owner Paul Allen doesn’t get emotional or worried about the potential absence of a player who fails to show up while under contract. Three years ago, safety Kam Chancellor held out into the regular season in an effort to get a new deal, and the Seahawks didn’t blink.
Eventually, Chancellor showed up after missing a pair of regular-season games, with no new deal — and with no relief from the tens of thousands in fines he racked up while staying away from the team in violation of his contract. (Two years later Denico Autry Jersey , Chancellor received a new contract.)
The Seahawks aren’t expected to handle this case any differently, because Allen isn’t expected to react to the player’s absence any differently. They’ll wait for a trade offer that is deemed suitable for Thomas, or they’ll wait for Thomas.
At a base salary of $8.5 million, he’ll lose $500,000 for each regular-season game he skips. After missing two or three games without the Seahawks doing anything, he’ll have to decide whether to continue to watch his money disappear Womens Joe Flacco Jersey , a half-million dollars at a time. Eventually, he’ll need to decide whether to show up in time to get credit for the contract year, allowing himself to become a free agent in 2019.
It’s unknown what the Seahawks want in trade for Thomas, but the team realizes that, if he finishes his contract and leaves next year, his departure will count toward the team’s potential haul of compensatory draft picks.
That doesn’t mean Thomas shouldn’t try to get more. But if withholding services simply doesn’t move the needle for ownership Kevin Hogan Jersey , a holdout by a player under contract ultimately won’t work. And Thomas was there to see what happened when Chancellor tried to get more by staying away.
The Patriots will be down one wide receiver for the first four games of the 2018 season while Julian Edelman serves a suspension, but that reportedly isn’t keeping them from considering a trade involving another member of their receiver group.
Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the team is “seeking a potential trade partner” for a deal involving Malcolm Mitchell.
Mitchell, a 2016 fourth-round pick, missed all of last season with a knee injury and was limited to conditioning work this offseason before saying he was unsure if he’d be ready to go for training camp. The injury issues would likely impact the trade market for Mitchell, who caught 32 passes for 401 yards and four touchdowns in the regular season as a rookie and added six catches for 70 yards in a Super Bowl win over Atlanta.
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