Marshawn Lynch was a no-show in the opening day of training camp, confirming reports that the Seattle Seahawk will hold out while waiting for a resolution on his contract demands.

Former Seahawks teammate Michael Robinson said on Thursday that Lynch, one of his closest friends in the team, will hold out from training camp as he tries to secure a new contract this offseason.

Lynch threatened not to attend Seattle's minicamp in June before eventually showing up. But with his contract demands remains unresolved, the 28-year-old apparently proved that he can back up his threat.

Lynch still has two years left in his four-year, $31 million contract he signed in 2012. The eight-year veteran is set to earn $5 million along with $500,000 roster bonus and a $1.5 million prorated signing bonus.

Next season, Lynch is due to get $5.5 million in salary and a total of $3 million bonus, but the veteran apparently wants more, and Robinson feels that his former teammate deserves what he is asking for.

"You take Marshawn Lynch off the team last year; do we win the Super Bowl? I think all of us know the answer to that," Robinson said via Seattle Times. "He just wants to be paid like it. He knows he has a short window left. Nobody says anything when teams cut a guy at this juncture, though. I'm all in for players getting their dollars."

Meanwhile, unlike Lynch, Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson was present in the team's first day of training camp on Friday.

Johnson skipped the team's voluntary offseason workouts and mandatory minicamp after hinting that he wants a change of scenery, but the 33-year-old veteran said that he feels comfortable with the direction the team under new coach Bill O'Brien.

"I feel very comfortable with where the organization is going," Johnson said via ESPN. "I think a lot of what I said in the offseason had to do with things that have happened over the past eight, nine years or so. Like I said, talking to Bill this offseason and the conversations me and him have had is all been positive."

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