Per
www.ProFootballTalk.com (Take it for what you will):
CARDS EXTEND BOLDIN
The Arizona Cardinals have reached an agreement with receiver Anquan Boldin on a four-year contract extension.
Per a league source, the new deal is a four-year extension of a contract that was set to expire after the 2006 season. Boldin's new agreement replaces minimum salaries of $380,000 and $450,000 over the next two seasons with the following terms:
$5 million signing bonus;
2005 salary of $1.5 million;
$5 million option bonus due in early 2006;
$1.75 million salary in 2006;
and salaries of $2 million in 2007, $2.5 million in 2008, $2.75 million in 2009, and $3 million in 2010.
The "new" money, then, is $22.67 million over the six-year term of the deal, with a total of $13.25 million paid over the next two years and a total of $15.25 million paid over the first three seasons.
Not bad for a guy who has played only two years, and who missed six games in 2004 with a knee injury.
Boldin caught 101 passes for 1,377 yards and 8 touchdowns in his rookie season of 2003, and his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, has been trying to get a replacement deal for the second-round draft pick for much of the past season. Boldin abandoned plans to hold out in an effort to force a new deal earlier in the offseason, after coach Denny Green made it clear that the organization was prepared to move on without him.
Instead, the Cards and Boldin will be together for the long haul.
