I'm of two minds on this. One I think the deal is a little rich for a Back-up D-Lineman, but given the Patriots propensity to rotate the DLine based on what package they want in there, I am not terribly surprised with the move. It is roughly the same type of deal that Green got back a few years ago. So the numbers are not terrible.
But I would have thought getting Wilfork a new deal would have been a much higher priority. Wright is not capable of being a full-time replacement at the Nose. There is no way you would want to be a 3-4 team with Wright as your primary nose tackle. So now the options are limited to how you address the nose tackle position.
Trading up and drafting a guy high, like a Raji, is not to desirable, since you would then have three guys at one spot, all getting paid at a high price tag. Drafting a guy later is an option, but then that guy would need to be able step in next year and do the job, if you drafted and let him be a reserve year one then resigned Wilfork, you would be overloaded at the position.
So in my mind, which is a dark and twisted place, resigning Wright to this type of deal means that you need to resign Wilfork. Which I would have thought should have been done first.
