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SAN ANTONIO – Newly signed Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Henry Melton said Wednesday he isn’t worried about the lawsuit he faces for allegedly biting a bar owner in December while being kicked out of a tavern in Grapevine.
Police arrested the Grapevine High School graduate and Texas-ex on charges of public intoxication and assault after an altercation two days before Christmas.
“It’s just a bad situation that’s getting blown up by people trying to have a money grab,” Melton told Dallas’ KRLD-FM. “Other than that, it’s pretty much behind me. It’s not anything that will affect me, especially my play, nothing that I have to do time for or anything like that. It’s just people trying to get money.”
The Cowboys signed Melton to a cap friendly one-year contract that protects them should his surgically repaired knee prevent him from returning to the Pro Bowl form he showed in 2012, when he recorded six sacks for the Chicago Bears. Melton played only three games last season because of a damaged knee ligament.
Melton’s base salary for 2014 will be $1.25 million, although he can earn up to $5 million with incentives. The club can exercise a three-year option on Melton beginning in 2015 that will reportedly give him $9 million in guaranteed money, meaning he will be paid along the lines of the league’s top defensive tackles.
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Police arrested the Grapevine High School graduate and Texas-ex on charges of public intoxication and assault after an altercation two days before Christmas.
“It’s just a bad situation that’s getting blown up by people trying to have a money grab,” Melton told Dallas’ KRLD-FM. “Other than that, it’s pretty much behind me. It’s not anything that will affect me, especially my play, nothing that I have to do time for or anything like that. It’s just people trying to get money.”
The Cowboys signed Melton to a cap friendly one-year contract that protects them should his surgically repaired knee prevent him from returning to the Pro Bowl form he showed in 2012, when he recorded six sacks for the Chicago Bears. Melton played only three games last season because of a damaged knee ligament.
Melton’s base salary for 2014 will be $1.25 million, although he can earn up to $5 million with incentives. The club can exercise a three-year option on Melton beginning in 2015 that will reportedly give him $9 million in guaranteed money, meaning he will be paid along the lines of the league’s top defensive tackles.
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