According to The Seattle Times, the Seahawks met with defensive end Frank Clark Wednesday and expressed “extreme disappointment with his judgment’’ in relation to a tweet Clark sent to a female reporter with Bleacher Report Tuesday night.
Clark followed up their meeting with a longer apology via Twitter to the reporter this afternoon.
Bleacher Report writer Natalie Weiner wrote a story last week about former NFL player Greg Hardy and the ongoing issue of domestic violence in the NFL. Although Weiner didn’t mention Clark in that article, she did write a column two years ago that criticized the Seahawks for drafting Clark in the second round of the 2015 draft. Weiner shared that story along with her Hardy story.
Clark responded on twitter tweeting at Weiner that “People like you don’t have long careers in your field. I have a job cleaning my fish tank when that lil job is ova.”
Clark deleted his tweet and then tweeted: ‘’Apologize to anyone who felt offended by my tweet earlier. We gotta do better supporting these major issues we face in this world.”
According to The Seattle Times, the Seahawks statement read in full: “We met with Frank this morning and expressed our extreme disappointment with his judgment.”
Clark was arrested for domestic violence in 2014 but eventually pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
He is entering the third season of his four-year rookie contract.