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Cards' Wells signs offer sheet with Bills
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The Cardinals have to decide whether they want to keep the offensive lineman they graded as their best last season, after guard Reggie Wells agreed to an offer sheet with the Buffalo Bills Friday.
The Cards have seven days to match the offer, or lose the restricted free agent and get a sixth-round draft pick in return — the spot Wells was drafted in 2003.
The contract is for five years and $17.6 million, ESPN.com reported, including a $3 million signing bonus and a $2 million guaranteed roster bonus. It would be a hefty raise over the “low” $712,000 tender offer the Cards gave Wells, when a tender of $1.55 million would have cost the Bills a first-round pick to go after Wells.
After Wells, who also visited Green Bay, met with the Bills this week, he acknowledged “there’s a possibility” he could end up leaving but “I don’t know what to think.” Vice president of football operations Rod Graves said the team planned to retain Wells, but the Cards would evaluate the situation if and when Wells received an offer.
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