Source: Clemons to sign $21 million deal with Seahawks

The contract extension agreed to on Monday, and likely to be signed Tuesday or Wednesday by Seattle Seahawks' defensive end Chris Clemons, is for three years and worth more than $21 million, The Sports Xchange has confirmed. Agent Don Henderson confirmed the length of the contract only. Henderson was still reviewing the contract late Tuesday afternoon, and precise details were still being exchanged with Seattle officials, but there appeared to be no major stumbling blocks to the deal becoming official. Clemons, 30, was entering the final season of a five-year, $12.6 million contract originally signed with Philadelphia in 2008, and was scheduled to earn a base salary of $4 million. Clemons forfeited $1 million of that base salary when he did not attend a mandatory three-day minicamp last month. The $1 million forfeiture, a loss of $100,000 in an offseason workout bonus and the $70,000-plus in fines that Clemons accrued for his absence from the minicamp will become academic ...