The Chargers placed safety Eric Weddle on injured reserve Monday, ending his season and possibly his tenure with the team with free agency looming in the new year.
That possibly might not be necessary based on a series of tweets from Weddle’s agent David Canter on Monday afternoon. Canter says that the Chargers told Weddle that he can’t travel to Denver with the team for the season finale against the Broncos because the “plane is too small,” something that led Canter and Weddle to go public about a fine he received from the team after their Week 15 victory over the Dolphins.
According to Canter, the Chargers fined Weddle for remaining on the field during halftime of that game so he could watch his daughter perform in that day’s halftime show. Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune reports it was a $10,000 fine and Canter says they didn’t go public with it before because they’re “classy,” but that changed because the way “we have been treated is beyond reproach.”
There will likely be a response of some kind from the Chargers to Canter’s volleys and they may add more color to the team’s decisions, but it feels safe to say that Weddle will be in a different uniform come the 2016 season.
