{"id":75359,"date":"2025-08-11T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75359\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:11:07","slug":"source-rashawn-slaters-contract-insured-against-career-ending-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75359\/","title":{"rendered":"Source &#8211; Rashawn Slater&#8217;s contract insured against career-ending injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 11, 2025, 01:11 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated. <a href=\"#Conceicao\" target=\"_self\">Read below<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once <a data-player-guid=\"3ee99e70-0895-225c-d16b-feaaeddc3a0f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4242283\/rashawn-slater\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rashawn Slater<\/a>&#8216;s $114 million contract was signed, the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"84caf62b-c753-71ea-a787-44fd224a4294\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lac\/los-angeles-chargers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> purchased an insurance policy against a career-ending injury that offers no salary cap relief for the team for the 2026 season, a source told ESPN on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, a source told ESPN that the Chargers&#8217; insurance policy on Slater&#8217;s contract was for a season-ending injury and would offer cap relief in 2026 of $9 million or more. However, a source later told ESPN the policy is for a career-ending injury only and won&#8217;t offer the 2026 relief if Slater returns.<\/p>\n<p>Slater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4242283\/rashawn-slater\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered a torn patella tendon<\/a> last week that required surgery and ended his season. It was, as Jim Harbaugh described, a &#8220;gut punch&#8221; for the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Slater&#8217;s contract included a $29 million signing bonus, a $7 million roster bonus and a $2 milllon base salary.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Conceicao\"\/>This story was updated to clarify that the insurance policy is against a career-ending injury, not season-ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 11, 2025, 01:11 PM ET This story has been updated. Read below Once Rashawn Slater&#8216;s $114 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-75359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}