As Seahawks safety Earl Thomas was being carted off the field Sunday with a broken leg he had a point to make to his team … with his middle finger.

Thomas, who returned from a bitter, unresolved offseason contract dispute to play for Seattle, appeared frustrated and seemed to flip off the Seahawks sideline.

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said their All-Pro safety had fractured his lower left leg during Seattle’s 20-17 win over the Cardinals. But Carroll tried to downplay Thomas’ obscene sign.

“I don’t know anything about that,” Carroll said about the gesture. “It’s a big stadium. I don’t know where it was aimed at. Earl was extraordinarily poised on the field. For what just occurred to be so clear and so resolved to — he knew what happened. But he was so poised and giving back to the players and all of us. So I don’t know what happened after that.”

Thomas is in the final year of a contract that pays him $8.5 million and decided to end his holdout even after the Seahawks wouldn’t offer him an acceptable deal. He stood to miss out on $500,000 for each game he missed.

Now, he may have played his last game for the Seahawks.