Anquan Boldin -- Cardinals shopping around WR

Someone is about to pay a lot of money for Anquan Boldin.
Anquan Boldin will be in the thick of a bidding war soon.

The Arizona Cardinals wide reciever is about to be placed on the market, and people are opening up their wallets.

From a Washington Post article:
There's no rethinking the issue now for the Arizona Cardinals when it comes to trading wide receiver Anquan Boldin.

When General Manager Rod Graves and Coach Ken Whisenhunt announced Wednesday that they were listening to trade offers for Boldin, they added that their preference was to keep the three-time Pro Bowl wideout and sign him to a longterm contract extension.

Nonsense.

Boldin has wanted to get out of Arizona for quite some time. And now that the Cardinals have acknowledged that they're considering trading him, there's no turning back. There's no repairing the relationship. There's no way to coexist any longer. In Boldin's mind, he undoubtedly is as good as gone.

So the questions are:

Where is Boldin headed?

And what will the Cardinals get in return?

Let's take the second of those questions first. It stands to reason that the Cardinals will be seeking at least what the Detroit Lions got from the Dallas Cowboys in last season's Roy Williams trade--first-, third- and sixth-round draft picks. Boldin is, simply put, a more productive player than Williams, and he remains in the prime of his career. The price tag will be substantial, and any team that trades for Boldin presumably will be prepared to sign him to a contract extension worth somewhere around $10 million per season. That's the deal that the Cardinals' other Pro Bowl wideout, Larry Fitzgerald, got. The Fitzgerald signing played a major role in putting Boldin at odds with the Cardinals over his contract.