Eric Weddle Not Attending Chargers Workouts
- Updated: April 20, 2015
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According to reports, Eric Weddle is skipping the Chargers’ workouts. The reason? Well, he feels “disrespected” because the team refuses to discuss a new contract with him.
UT San Diego reports Weddle saying the following after his own home-workout this afternoon:
“I feel highly, highly disrespected,” Weddle said. “… It is what it is, but there is no reason for me to put out any more effort.”
Weddle, coming off his second first-team All-Pro season, said he does not know when (or if) he will join the team for offseason workouts. It seems unlikely.”
Although the conditioning and coaching sessions aren’t mandatory, Eric Weddle has not been one to miss out on the team’s activities.
Defensive captain the past four years, and the Chargers’ Defensive Player of the Year three of the last four seasons, he has played in 80 straight games. Working alongside nine different strong safeties, “he has played 99 percent of the Chargers’ defensive snaps in that five-year span, plus 60 percent of special teams snaps,” according to UT San Diego.
“This year, with his contract set to expire after the 2015 season, Weddle said it took a lot of effort to even get a dialogue going with the team and that agent David Canter was told an extension for Weddle was not a priority.
“We’ve come to them numerous times and said we want to be part of the team, we want to retire as a Charger,” Eric Weddle said. “We’ve completely gotten pushed aside.”
And so, he is sitting out the offseason program, “letting them know I’m not very happy.”
It definitely shouldn’t have gotten to this point!
What do you think Chargers fans?
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