Bosworth Gives Seahawks His Contract Proposal

An agent for former Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth said he has given the Seattle Seahawks a contract proposal.

Agent Gary Wichard declined to disclose the terms of the offer but stressed it would be the only one the Seahawks would get. Wichard was quoted in Saturday’s editions of the Tacoma News Tribune.

“I’m not going to get into a back-and-forth kind of thing,” Wichard said from his home in suburban New York. “Either they like it or they don’t.”

The Seahawks picked Bosworth, a two-time All-American selection, in the National Football League’s supplemental draft last month.

Seahawk President Mike McCormack and Coach Chuck Knox met Thursday night in Irving, Tex., with Bosworth and Wichard.

Bosworth has said he wasn’t interested in playing for the Seahawks but has met twice with club officials.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that a source close to Bosworth said he wanted to be the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history, seeking a $9-million deal over seven years. The league’s highest-paid defensive player is linebacker Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants, at $900,000 a year.