Holdout Could Cost Seattle Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch Over $1 Million Already--and Potentially $4 Million!

Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch is not doing anything we have not seen many players do in the past. He thinks he is worth more than the contract he has signed and is legally bound to so he is holding out. So he accrues fines for each day of camp he misses. In the scheme of things they are chump change to a guy like him.

However, if Lynch does not get in to camp soon the fines could add up to a whole lot more than chump change.

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According to ESPN's John Clayton, as of Tuesday the team will be able to go after 15 percent of his signing bonus ($900K) and for every day after that another one percent ($60K). When you combine that with the $30K/day that will amount to $1.08 million he'll owe the team.

That is, assuming he doesn't show up on Tuesday.

Things could get really expensive for him the longer he waits. He could lose as much as 25 percent of his signing bonus. Each missed preseason game will cost him $312,500. By time the regular season starts his holdout could cost him over $4 million.

So far the team has not waivered in their refusal to negotiate--and they don't have to. He has two years left on his contract and absolutely no grounds to force the Seahawks to do anything.

Yeah, you could say they need their running back, but if they give in the precedent that will be set is a nasty one.

[King5]

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