Seahawks’ Chancellor gets big payday
Seattle Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor signed a three-year contract extension Tuesday that will keep him with the team through the 2020 season. A league source confirmed to the Seattle Times and ESPN report that it is a three-year deal worth $36 million with $25 million guaranteed.
The team officially announced the contract Tuesday morning without revealing details.
Chancellor had said Monday he was feeling good about the progress of negotiations and hoped to retire as a Seahawks player, which came a day after coach Pete Carroll also had said things looked positive.
The deal makes Chancellor the third-highest paid safety in the NFL on a peryear basis, according to OvertheCap.com, behind the $13 million of Kansas City’s Eric Berry and the $12.5 million of Arizona’s Tyrann Mathieu and tied with the $12 million per of Miami’s Reshad Jones (Chancellor’s teammate, Earl Thomas, makes $10 million per season.)
The guaranteed total of $25 million also ranks among the top among safeties (Jones got $33 million as part of a four-year, $48 million contract signed in March 2016 generally regarded as setting something of a floor for Chancellor).
Chancellor was entering the final year of four-year, $28 million extension signed
Bengals
Things got heated at practice Tuesday after linebacker Vontaze Burfict tackled running back Giovani Bernard to the tur. Running backs coach Kyle Caskey quickly said something to Burfict, who shoved at him. Tight end Tyler Eifert and the offensive line soon ran over, causing a skirmish to erupt that included almost the entire team.
Ravens
Baltimore got the worst possible news on the status of offensive guard Nico Siragusa’s left knee. The rookie fourth-round pick, who was carted off the field late Tuesday in practice, tore the anterior cruciate, medial collateral and posterior cruciate ligaments in his left knee, sources confirmed. He’s expected to miss his entire rookie season, becoming the seventh Ravens player since June 1 to be lost for the entire year because of injury, suspension or retirement.
Jets
Rookie Jamal Adams said his comments about the football field being the ‘perfect place to die’ were about his passion for the game and he meant no disrespect to players and families dealing with effects of concussions. Adams said that his love for football was the message he was trying to convey during a question-and-answer session that included NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
Panthers
Running back Christian McCaffrey has created a buzz in his first week of training camp with veterans and coaches raving about his ability to make people miss. There hasn’t been this much anticipation from fans over a Panthers rookie since 2011 when Cam Newton was drafted No. 1 overall.
Elsewhere
The upcoming football season at a Green Bay middle school named for legendary Packers coach Vince Lombardi has been canceled because the school can’t find any coaches. Administrators at Lombardi Middle School have advertising for coaches since last April and have not had a single application. Efforts by the high school coaching staff to help fill the positions have come up empty. The school district says a middle school coaching job pays $2,149 a season.