It's easy to connect the two dots and say, as many do, that Earl Thomas is under contract thus he has an obligation to be at all mandatory Seahawks events.
That includes training camp that begins in 2 1/2 weeks. The three-time All-Pro safety may be for the start of camp what he's been for every other team event since Seattle last played a game seven months ago: absent. Thomas is protesting not having a new deal beyond his that ends after 2018.
On Monday, Bobby Wagner outlined why he and some of Thomas' teammates don't blame him for skipping out on the Seahawks so far.