AP

Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor missed out on more than $530,000 in game checks by skipping the first two weeks of the season. Now that he’s back, the question becomes how much of $1.1 million in fines and $500,000 in signing bonus the Seahawks will collect from Chancellor.

Coach Pete Carroll has said the Seahawks will say nothing about whether and to what extent money will be pursued from Chancellor. Someone is saying something, because Jason La Canfora of CBS reports that the Seahawks will collect a “sizable chunk” of the money, in order to deter other players from holding out (like Michael Bennett).

It’s one thing to not pay Chancellor the $530,000 he didn’t earn. It’s quite another to ask him to refund money he already has received and on which he has paid taxes.

Paying $1.1 million in fines translates to more than $1.6 million in pre-tax earnings. Coughing up $500,000 in signing bonus money requires seeking a refund from the various governments to which Chancellor has paid taxes.

Whatever Chancellor has to refund, he’ll surely be looking for that money and more when he tries once again to get the Seahawks to address his contract in the offseason.