He formally requested a trade after contract negotiations broke down over the weekend in Indianapolis, Allen’s agent, Ken Harris, said Sunday.

Published reports said that the team rejected the request, and Chiefs general manager Carl Peterson told said that the club plans to tender Allen on March 1, the deadline for teams to submit qualifying offers to restricted free agents.

Chiefs spokesman Bob Moore could not immediately confirm the report Sunday.

However, Moore said, “It’s my understanding that we have no intentions of trading Jared Allen.”

Allen, whose contract expires this week, has produced 271⁄2 sacks in three years with the Chiefs. But he earned a base salary of just $425,000 in the final year of his contract — well below the salaries of most other starting defensive ends.

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