Several weeks ago, it was reported that Cardinals receiver Anquan Boldin had requested a trade out of Arizona.

Boldin now denies it.

“I went to sleep one night, woke up the next morning and was disgruntled, I wanted out of Arizona and all this stuff,” Boldin said.  “And I hadn’t even talked to anybody.  It was funny to see the reports going around, especially around the draft time.

“We were under the impression the whole time that [we were] just keeping things under wraps, like we usually do,” Boldin said.  “I don’t feel like going to the media every time something happens because I think the business between me and the ballclub is between us and that’s how it should stay.”

Boldin also said that he wants to stay in Arizona, and that he doesn’t believe his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, asked for a trade.  (The original report was that Boldin, not Rosenhaus, had asked to be traded.)

Perhaps Boldin did want out, and is now trying to find a way to save face on this one, given that he wasn’t traded and has no other options, unless he wants to pay daily fines in excess of $14,000 and return a portion of his signing bonus.

Boldin is signed through 2010 at salaries of $2.5 million, $2.75 million, and $3 million over the next three seasons, respectively.  In contrast, receiver Larry Fitzgerald is now averaging $10 million per year.