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Anquan Boldin could have had Brandon Marshall's role, but both are content

"While new Dolphin Brandon Marshall was meeting the press Thursday afternoon in Plantation, another Pro Bowl wide receiver who long imagined himself onto the same South Florida stage was up at PGA National, puttering around in a golf cart, hammering away on a new dream.

You remember Anquan Boldin, right? This weekend, the sixth Q-Festival Weekend, brings fresh evidence that he remembers you, too.

The former Pahokee High School and Florida State standout is back home to raise money for underprivileged youth in Palm Beach County, and in Arizona, where Boldin spent the first seven seasons of his NFL career, and soon enough, in Baltimore, too, where a trade sent 'Quan last month to begin again at 29.

Boldin got plenty in his new deal with the Ravens, with $28 million spread across four years and $10 million of that guaranteed. Baltimore coughed up a third- and a fourth-round pick in next week's draft, too.

Either the Dolphins didn't want to pay that much to get Boldin or they just weren't sold on his ability to transform their offense. That may not make perfect sense to everybody out in Pahokee, but neither is there any real grumbling about the younger and louder Marshall getting so much more, including $24 million in guaranteed money."


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