$6.75 a year sounds like quite a bit, but without knowing which amount is guaranteed and/or what incentives are in the contract, it's not saying all that much.
I don't reall have any strong feelings either way. He's a good RT. If he didn't miss all that time to injuries, he'd most likely have signed somewhere for at least $8 million a year. Next to that, keeping this line together is something you can't put a pricetag on. We've seen how horrible it's been when we're playing musical chairs.
Then again, the injury concerns always bother me. Chances are rather big that, if a player gets a big injury, you won't have him at the point where you most need him. In the play-offs. Barclay is one year further in his development and could've taken a crack at the starting job. Especially since we have another two decent back-ups in Tretter and Taylor. The money could've been spent at a position of higher need, is what I mean.
One thing's for certain, at least Wade is a somewhat happy man. He'll only want us to draft 5 O-linemen instead of 6 now.