The Seahawks’ regular season opener is less than two weeks away, and we still have yet to have a Kam Chancellor sighting.
Seattle’s starting strong safety, who’s one of the team’s defensive leaders, is now 32 days into his holdout. Chancellor wants the Seahawks to renegotiate the four-year, $28-million contract extension he signed in 2013, which runs through the 2017 season. Chancellor’s beef is that the contact calls for him to make $4.55 million in base salary this season, which is less than half what his fellow Legion of Boom member Richard Sherman now makes, and there’s no guaranteed money for 2016 or 2017. The Seahawks, meanwhile, are adamant about sticking to their policy of not renegotiating any contracts with multiple years remaining, and Seattle has little room under the salary cap to work with anyway.
No one expected the holdout to last this long, but it seems the parties are at an impasse. Will things be settled by opening day?
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