Source: Colston, Saints agree to 3-year extension

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Saints bring Colston up to speed
Published 7/24/2008 at ESPN.com - NFL Nation - Blog
... JACKSON, Miss. -- Just got into town on what's been a busy eve of training camp for the Saints. In a crucial move, the Saints agreed to a contract extension with Marques Colston that will keep the wide receiver with the team through 2011. That comes just after New Orleans traded for tight end Jeremy Shockey. That means two very talented players are going to be very happy when practice starts Thursday morning. Colston, a seventh-round pick in 2006, had quickly become one of the league's most underpaid players and Shockey had been ...

Colston Gets Three-Year Extension
Published 7/24/2008 by Doug Farrar at N/A
Colston Gets Three-Year Extension Good week for Drew Brees. Soon after the New Orleans Saints acquired Jeremy Shockey, the news came down that the team has signed Marques Colston, Brees’s primary receiver in 2006 and 2007, to a three-year contract extension. Colston, whose 168 receptions in his first two seasons is an NFL record, was set to make a base salary of $445,000 this year. He has come a long way from his seventh-round draft status in 2006. Any fluke designations applied to Colston’s rookie season went out the window when he increased his totals in catches, yards, ...