Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando
Anquan Boldin doesn't want a trade, after all. The Cardinals' receiver is attending the team's post-draft camp and shooting down trade talk that surfaced after teammate Larry Fitzgerald signed a four-year, $40 million contract this offseason.
"I've always wanted to be in Arizona," Boldin said after practice today. "This is the only place I have known professionally. I don't want to uproot my family and leave. I am happy here. I have a great rapport with everybody around here, coaches included. I am happy here."
The Arizona Republic has quoted Cardinals officials as saying Boldin's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, had asked whether the team would be amenable to a trade. Asked if his agent had requested a trade, Boldin said, "No."
"I went to sleep one night and woke up the next morning and I was disgruntled, wanted out of Arizona and all this stuff," Boldin said. "I hadn't even talked to nobody. It's funny to see the reports going around, especially around draft time. It is what it is. I can't do anything about it. None of it was me."
The bottom line is that Boldin said he plans to go about his work the way he always has, letting his agent handle the contract situation. The team plans to re-work Boldin's contract when the opportunity is right, coach Ken Whisenhunt said today. Boldin appeared unfazed.
"I do what I do, and that is play football," he said. "That is not a distraction to me at all."
Boldin is among several players resting injuries during camp. He has a sore hamstring, Whisenhunt said.
