Seattle nearing extension with Bobby Wagner

At 25, Wagner is locked in as the ‘Hawks starting Major League Baseball for his best years, and, like Wilson, he’ll also have a chance at making a second big contract down the road. Wilson will earn a comparatively small base salary of 0,000 this coming season, plus a $6.4 million signing bonus, according to Sportrac.com, which tracks professional sports contracts. Rubin signed a one-year deal with Seattle in March after spending his first seven seasons in Cleveland.

“Yeah Rubin, we’re really excited about him”, coach Pete Carroll said following Sunday’s practice, the first in shoulder pads since camp started on Friday. “It took a little bit longer than we wanted”. It does call for us to be committed to young guys, which we’ve done all along… young guys are going to have to fill in the spots to complement the guys that we’ve been able to compensate.

“It was one of those things like, ‘Hey, they’ve gotta sign you, ‘ ” Wilson said. Wagner has been a key part of the Seahawks defense and if the team doesn’t sign Bruce Irvin after not picking up his fifth year, Wagner will be even more integral. “I feel like that’s the reason I get to stay in the league … if they can stop me, then my time is up”. They could ill afford to continue into training camp with unresolved contractual matters looming.

“I always believed it, ” he said.

Wagner was an All-Pro last season and finished second on the team with 104 tackles despite missing five games with a painful toe injury – and that was after having 140 and 119 the previous two years.

USA Today also noted that the NFL Players Association Board of Representatives in March unanimously passed a resolution to form a committee to re-examine agent fees and educate rookies on their options.

Wilson signed his aforementioned contract extension Friday for a whoppings $87 million over four years, $60 million of which is guaranteed.

The player Wagner now is is the highest-paid middle linebacker in NFL history.

“The best and highest-paid, ” he said of what he wrote in a notebook that he says he still has.

Bobby Wagner is indeed one of the best in the NFL.

He had to be more patient about the salary.

Michael Bennett, though apparently unhappy with his pay now, was given a new contract and is playing out a 4-year, $28.5 million contract.

Turns out Bobby Wagner was right. They can’t hand out any more big contracts thanks to Wilson’s large pockets.

Wagner is the latest off-the-ball linebacker to sign a new deal.

Wilson has insisted there was never any bitterness between him and the club in their dispute over the deal in the summer, when it looked unlikely that a deal could be secured. “For me, I just let the play speak for itself”, said Wilson, the former Wisconsin star.

“Conventional wisdom and me don’t get along very well”, Carroll said.

Wagner was more straightforward, saying his personal deadline for getting a contract extension from his rookie deal is “now”.