Eric Weddle to report to Chargers minicamp, agent David Canter says

SAN DIEGO -- Eric Weddle will attend the Chargers' three-day, mandatory minicamp which begins on Tuesday, his agent, David Canter, said via Twitter.

The 30-year-old safety enters the final year of his contract and has skipped the Chargers' voluntary workouts amid desires for a new deal.

Weddle said he felt disrespected by the way the organization is handling negotiations.

Weddle would have been subject to a little over $70,000 in fines had he missed the entire, three-day session.

He led San Diego's defense by playing 961 snaps last season. Since 2008, Weddle has played an average of 937 snaps during the regular season. He is the only safety in the NFL named first- or second-team All-Pro for five straight seasons.

Weddle is scheduled to make $7.5 million in base salary in the final year of a five-year, $40 million deal. That makes Weddle the third-highest-paid safety in terms of total compensation in 2015.

Only safeties Devin McCourty of the New England Patriots ($18 million) and Jairus Byrd of theNew Orleans Saints($8.1 million) will make more in 2015.

Chargers general manager Tom Telesco said last week that he talked with Weddle, and that he understands the team's perspective on negotiations.

"We do take great pride in how we treat our players here -- players, coaches, scouts, staff -- everyone in the organization," Telesco told The Mighty 1090 AM radio. "Anyone that's been around the building the last couple years has seen that firsthand.

"We said before the draft that we would talk after the draft," he said. "And we did. And we talked multiple times. We listened to their concerns about his current contract. We listened to their complaints about playing too much. And we read through their statistical analysis and their financial comparisons.

"We went through all of that stuff. We just decided that we're just not at their numbers right now. It's really as simple as that. There's no sinister agenda there, nothing like that. Just right now it's not there."