Mike Wallace: Teams That Should Pursue Free-Agent Wide Receiver This Offseason

February 10, 2013   ·   Joseph Zucker   ·   Jump to comments

Mike Wallace is looking to be one of the most coveted wide receivers on the free-agent market this season.
With the Pittsburgh Steelers already having Antonio Brown locked up for the long term, Wallace's time in Pittsburgh seems to be drawing to an end.
As Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote:
Now he is an unrestricted free agent and it appears Wallace and the Steelers will part ways in March. They gave him their best offer last year, reportedly averaging $10 million annually over five years, and he turned it down. They stopped negotiating with Wallace once camp started and he did not show up, and quickly turned their attention to Brown. He signed a five-year contract for $42.5 million that included an $8.5 million signing bonus.
Essentially, Brown's contract signaled the end of Wallace's career in Pittsburgh.
It certainly wouldn't be jumping the gun for teams to prepare themselves for the possibility of signing the wide receiver. Despite dec...

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