Locker still has no regrets

Before his senior season, and before capping off his University of Washington career with a Holiday Bowl victory, and before he was selected eighth overall in the April NFL draft, Jake Locker said time and again that there will be no regrets with his decision to pass up the 2010 draft and return for his senior year.

Of course, all that was before the NFL lockout put a monetary value on Locker’s choice.

After league owners and players signed off on a collective-bargaining agreement that put caps on rookie salaries, Locker signed a four-year deal that could pay him $12 million. That’s only a fraction of the amount in salary given to last year’s No. 8 overall choice: Oakland linebacker Rolando McClain, who signed a five-year deal worth up to $40 million.

But don’t expect Locker to look back with regret.

“Not at all,” he said Tuesday morning. “There might be a difference in numbers, but the way I look at it, if I can’t live on my salary the way it is, then I don’t deserve to have that much money anyway.”