Frank Clark’s NFL career is barely a week old, but he’s already in hot water.
The Seahawks second-round draft pick is accused of striking his former girlfriend and threatening a hotel manager, according to the Seattle Times.
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Stephanie Burkhardt, a hotel manager in Sandusky, Ohio, says Clark threatened her and admitted to hitting his now ex-girlfriend last November.
Burkhardt told police that Clark told her, “I will hit you like I hit her.” She said he also shouldered her out of the way upon leaving his hotel room.
Clark was arrested in Ohio for striking his then-girlfriend Diamond Hurt. He was dismissed from Michigan’s football team two days later.
Selected by the Seahawks with the 63rd pick overall, the 6-foot-3, 271-pound defensive end spent much of his rookie minicamp talking about the incident.
“I’ve been honest and up front this whole time as much as I can,” he said Friday. “Everything I’ve said to the coaches, to everyone who’s questioned me about it, I’ve been honest and up front from the very beginning. That’s all I can do.”
Burkhardt declined to press charges against Clark.
The Seahawks, who did not have a first-round pick, have also received criticism for using their first draft selection on Clark.