Star defensive end Jadeveon Clowney has still not found a team for the 2020 season. NFL.com’s Michael Silver joined 710 ESPN Seattle recently and stated Clowney would love to return to the Emerald City.
Silver said Clowney particularly admires the team culture and how being in Seattle has been a learning experience for him.
“I did have a long talk with him after that game with the Vikings last year,” Silver said. “He told me how much he loves the culture and how much he loves being in Seattle and how he thinks it taught him how to be a professional in a way that he hadn’t been previously. So I believe, all things being equal, that he would love to stay with the Seahawks, so it’ll be interesting to see, given their cap situation, given his financial parameters, if that can work out again.”
Clowney’s demands for a contract that pays him north of $20 million have not been met by any team so far, leading to speculation that he might sign a one-year deal with a team to boost his value so he can make more money the following season.
Silver went on to say Clowney’s financial wishes would probably be granted if he could consistently stay healthy.
“If you got that guy for 16 games healthy, I think he’d easily be getting $20 million a year,” Silver said.
“I think anyone with health stuff, right now, is in a worse situation than he normally would be,” Silver said. “Anyone who you’d say, ‘I’d love to have our doctors examine him before I know how we value this’ is in a spot … It is true that if you are Jadeveon Clowney, you’re wishing it was 2019 or, hopefully, 2021 if all goes well, but 2020 is a tricky year for that.”
Clowney will likely not receive what he is seeking, but the Seahawks will still be hard-pressed to re-sign him with their cap situation, especially if another team offers him more money. However, there is still a chance.
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