{"id":19099,"date":"2016-06-16T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/bennett-shows-but-doesnt-participate-at-minicamp\/"},"modified":"2016-06-16T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:00:53","slug":"bennett-shows-but-doesnt-participate-at-minicamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/bennett-shows-but-doesnt-participate-at-minicamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennett shows but doesn’t participate at minicamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

RENTON, Wash. <\/strong>\u2014 Even though Michael Bennett has expressed complaints over the past year about his contract with the Seattle Seahawks, he\u2019s not one to freely forfeit money.<\/p>\n

Which is why after staying away during Seattle\u2019s voluntary team activities over the past month, Bennett was back at the Seahawks facility on Tuesday as the team opened mandatory minicamp.<\/p>\n

Bennett was just a spectator for the first day of the three-day camp, the last team activities before the start of training camp in late July.<\/p>\n

Bennett said he has a sore ankle, and Seattle coach Pete Carroll said it\u2019s not believed to be a significant injury that could impact Bennett\u2019s readiness for the beginning of training camp.<\/p>\n

But he was there and avoiding any potential fines for staying away.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust trying to get back healthy from working out and get back to being ready to go when the season starts,\u201d Bennett said.<\/p>\n

There was very little drama to the opening day of Seattle\u2019s minicamp, with Bennett\u2019s attendance really the only question mark.<\/p>\n

Also present was defensive end Chris Clemons, who Carroll had previously joked took full liberty of the \u201cvoluntary\u201d aspect of the offseason training program.<\/p>\n

For more than a year, Bennett has openly expressed his displeasure with the $28 million, four-year extension he signed with Seattle that runs through the 2017 season. Bennett\u2019s claim is that he outplayed the worth of the contract, but said Tuesday his contract situation is up to the organization at this point.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe contributes to the whole team mentality by the way he brings it and the way he competes,\u201d Carroll said. \u201cWe\u2019re going ask everything of him. We\u2019re going to ask him to do everything when he\u2019s back and well and healthy and all that, we\u2019re going to expect him to do everything that he always has and that\u2019s not too much to ask of him.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the numbers have backed Bennett\u2019s claim. He\u2019s been one of the most versatile and disruptive defensive linemen in the NFL over the past two seasons playing both defensive end and defensive tackle.<\/p>\n

Bennett was a Pro Bowl selection last season after having 10 sacks, but that stat alone doesn\u2019t fully define Bennett\u2019s value.<\/p>\n

Bennett was proclaiming the talent of teammate Frank Clark on Tuesday and said Clark could be a \u201c$100 million\u201d player. Asked if he was worth $100 million, Bennett quickly backed the claim.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I am. If you look at the stats of those guys, what they\u2019ve done the last couple of years I\u2019m at the top of the list in every statistical category,\u201d Bennett said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at it \u2014 tackles for loss, quarterback hits, hurries, games played, positions played \u2014 I mean it speaks for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RENTON, Wash. \u2014 Even though Michael Bennett has expressed complaints over the past year about his contract with the Seattle Seahawks, he\u2019s not one to freely forfeit money. Which is why after staying away during Seattle\u2019s voluntary team activities over the past month, Bennett was back at the Seahawks facility on Tuesday as the team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19099"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}