Kansas City, Mo. ? Chiefs defensive end Jared Allen wants out of Kansas City.

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 271â2 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.

Kansas City Chiefs' Jared Allen, center, recovers a fumble by Oakland Raiders' Andrew Walter during a regular-season game last December. Allen confirmed Sunday he was requesting a trade from the Chiefs.

“His production has outpaced everyone else on the defensive line exponentially,” Harris said.

Harris confirmed that the sides were still far apart from a long-term deal, but declined to offer specifics.

Harris said that the club plans to high tender Allen, which means that if another team signed him to an offer sheet, the Chiefs could match it or receive a first- and third-round draft pick.

Allen would earn $2.35 million as a high tender in 2007. He said he isn’t optimistic about future negotiations with the Chiefs.

“I feel shocked and hurt,” Allen said. “Requesting a trade was probably the toughest thing I’ve had to do. It’s nothing personal against the town of Kansas City and the fans. It’s been great. (But) it doesn’t look like my future is going to be there, and I have to accept that. That’s why this is so hard. All the hard work I’ve put in – the blood, sweat and tears – I wanted to finish my career there. I was led to believe I was going to.”

Harris said Allen, a fourth-round draft pick in 2004, is “pretty upset” and did not want to talk to other reporters for several days.

Peterson said he still wants Allen on the team and that they’ve been discussing a long-term contract, but “he wants too much money.”

Peterson also noted that even though Allen’s two DUI convictions – the second earlier this month in Leawood – factored into the contract process, he still wanted Allen on the team.

“There’s always a risk,” he said. “And we haven’t found out yet from the National Football League how much of a suspension they’re going to give him (in 2007).”