T.J. Houshmandzadeh, wildly popular in the locker room and the community, is the guy with the bobbing ponytail and velvet hands who has battled adversity in earning an "Everyman" tag. But today he’s rewarded with a not-so every-day contract. With Houshmandzadeh being pursued by division rivals Baltimore and Pittsburgh, agent David Dunn and Bengals director of business development Troy Blackburn work into last night as free agency nears at midnight before finalizing a deal that keeps him off the market for what figures to be about $3 million per year with an excess of $5 million this year. ESPN.