Seattle Seahawks’ linebacker Leroy Hill made an adjustment to his bank account on Tuesday as he took a major pay cut to stay with the Seahawks for the 2010 season.
Hill was due to make $6 million this year after signing a six-year deal last April that would have been worth $38 million. Instead, Hill agreed to a base salary of $2.125 million for the season, making him a free agent in 2011.
“That was a situation where … we had obviously been talking to Leroy through the entire thing,” said Seahawks’ general manager John Schneider on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. “He had a situation that came up, and both sides felt like we could come up with a solution and John Idzik (Seahawks’ vice president of football administration) and Leroy’s representatives did a nice job figuring out a solution for the situation that Leroy was involved with.”
Hill will serve a one-game suspension, causing him to miss the season opener against the San Francisco 49ers, for his arrest of a marijuana-possession charge in Georgia.
The Seahawks traded starting cornerback Josh Wilson to the Baltimore Ravens for an conditional 2011 draft pick, after the Ravens “was very aggressive in coming after Josh” according to head coach Pete Carroll.