Plenty of perks come your way when you're a Super Bowl-winning quarterback, one of them being endorsement offers for every product under the sun. And when your performance outstrips your paycheck and you're making about one-twentieth of what some of your peers make, well, some of those endorsement checks start to look pretty tasty.
You can understand, then, why the Seattle Seahawks' Russell Wilson might jump at adding some endorsements to his portfolio. But you're (presumably) not tasked with making sure he wins football games. Seattle team execs are, and they want Wilson to "limit some of that exposure," according to a new report from ESPN's Chris Mortensen.
This latest "dissent in the Seattle locker room" story follows on the heels of the earlier "dissent in the Seattle locker room" story, in which some players allegedly claimed Wilson is "not black enough." This report seems to indicate that the locker room's problem with Wilson is not racially-based, but organizationally, with players upset at his closeness with management, and management upset with the number of commercials in which Wilson now appears. Even though the commercials were all filmed in the offseason, Seattle may be concerned about the possibility of "distraction," apparently.
Here's the report:
Of note, Wilson "only" makes about $660,000, or about half of what his backup, Tarvaris Jackson, makes. So yes, that might be at the heart of much of this as well.
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