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Arizona Cardinals Ink Adrian Wilson to a New Five Year Contract

Adrian_wilson5_mediumThe Arizona Cardinals front office continues to take care of business as they've signed Adrian Wilson, the veteran leader of the defense, to a new five year contract. Wilson was entering the final year of his deal and would have been a free agent after this season. Wilson, a third round pick in 2001, is one of the longest tenured Cardinals on the roster and will soon be a member of the exclusive 20/20 club (20 sacks/20 picks). Financial terms were not disclosed but a press conference has been scheduled for 3:30 today.

The new deal will keep Wilson, a two time Pro Bowler, in a Cardinals' uniform throught the 2013 season.  Big, major, gigantous props go out to the front office (Rod Graves and Michael Bidwell) for rewarding one of the franchise's best player and props to Wilson for handling his contract situation the right way. This clears the first, of three, major hurdles that the front office hopes to get resolved this off season. Karlos Dansby's future is still very much in doubt and we all know the situation with Anquan Boldin. We'll update as more information is avaliable.

Update: The deal is worth $39 million, with $18.5 million guaranteed and it'll carry a monster cap hit of roughly $10 million this season. The deal has been described by some sources as a 'four year extension' as opposed to a 'five year deal' but the bottom line is that it puts Wilson among the highest paid safeties in the league.

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SWEEEEETTTT!

Super job all around on this one.

by Drullin'OverDaCards on Jun 4, 2009 2:50 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Agreeeeeed!!!!

Way to go Big Red!!! Nothing but good will come from this!

by azcardswinez on Jun 4, 2009 2:54 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

A - DUB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now we have him and DRC locked up for years!

Great work guys……

Championship!

by CardsDefense on Jun 4, 2009 3:26 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Nice to see someone rewarded

..without mouthing off to the media. Mr. Boldin could learn a lot from Adrian Wilson’s actions.

by Irishcardinal on Jun 4, 2009 3:50 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

hallelujah!

Tey are doing something, for a moment I thought they were sitting around playing finger football.

by badmatty53 on Jun 4, 2009 4:14 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Great

to see Wilson continuing his time with the Cardinals. He has always been dedicated to staying with Arizona and plays as one of the best SS in the league.

by kj197728 on Jun 4, 2009 5:08 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Times change

I wonder what kind of perspective AW has on how the team culture is diferent now than it has been. I wonder what he would say about Pat Tillman?

It’d be great to have an interview on the daily flock with him :)

by steelerstyle on Jun 4, 2009 8:21 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

A-Dub was locked up for another 5 glorious years

and there was much rejoicing…(yaaay! yayy!)

by Fitz Jizzle on Jun 5, 2009 3:21 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

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