Leroy Hill’s the Latest Victim of the Seattle Seahawks’ Payday Plague

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Published: September 17, 2009

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... year. It’s the Curse of the Cash, the Bane of the Booty, the Payday Plague.

Since 2004, almost every Seahawk who has received a monster contract has missed a good chunk of time soon after.

The latest victim of the Malignance of Money jinx is linebacker Leroy Hill. In the first year of a six-year deal worth $38 million, Hill lasted less than one quarter before suffering a groin injury that figures to keep him out for the next six weeks.

Hill’s misfortune follows injuries to Grant Wistrom, Bobby Taylor, Andre Dyson, Kelly Herndon, Jamie Sharper, Matt Hasselbeck, Shaun Alexander, Deion Branch, Nate Burleson, Patrick Kerney, Mike Wahle, Sean Locklear and Marcus Trufant.

In the last five years, the only guys who received contracts worth $3 million or more per year and didn’t miss significant time in the first or second year of the deal were Walter Jones, Julian Peterson, Deon Grant and Lofa Tatupu.

In 2004, the Seahawks gave Wistrom a ...

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