{"id":688360,"date":"2026-05-22T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688360\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:56:11","slug":"new-nfl-rumors-reveal-jacoby-brissett-cardinals-significantly-far-apart-in-contract-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688360\/","title":{"rendered":"New NFL Rumors Reveal Jacoby Brissett, Cardinals ‘Significantly’ Far Apart in Contract Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quarterback Jacoby Brissett and the Arizona Cardinals are “significantly” far apart on a new contract, per ESPN’s Josh Weinfuss<\/a>, who provided more information.<\/p>\n

“Brissett has not attended any of the Cardinals voluntary OTAs or the voluntary offseason program as he waits for a new contract for this year, the second of a two-year deal he signed in March 2025. His deal currently pays him $4.88 million, with the potential to grow to $5.39 million, of which just $1.5 million is guaranteed. By comparison,\u00a0Gardner Minshew II, whom Arizona signed as a free agent in March, had $5.14 million guaranteed by the team for 2026.”<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler also added insight:<\/p>\n

Brissett signed a two-year, $12.5 million contract<\/a> last year to be Kyler Murray’s backup. However, Murray suffered a mid-foot sprain in Week 5<\/a>, and Brissett took over for the rest of the season, throwing for 3,366 yards and 23 touchdowns (eight interceptions) in 12 starts.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to see why Brissett wants a new deal. Simply put, he signed as a QB2, and now he’s the clear QB1 going into the 2026 season. Brissett was also productive and helped keep the offense humming despite a rough 3-14 season for the team overall.<\/p>\n

Chris Simms of NBC Sports believes Brissett should “hold his damn ground” for a better deal.<\/p>\n

Looking past 2026, Arizona has plenty of questions moving forward as a rebuilding team with no clear long-term answer at quarterback. It very well could be Miami signal-caller Carson Beck, who Arizona selected in the third round of the 2026 NFL draft. <\/p>\n

However, the 2027 NFL draft, on paper, looks rich with high-end quarterback prospects, including Texas’ Arch Manning, Oregon’s Dante Moore and Notre Dame’s CJ Carr.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the Cardinals and Brissett are in a standoff. The real date to watch is June 8<\/a>, which marks the beginning of mandatory minicamp. We’ll see if something comes to fruition by then, but if not, it’ll be interesting to see if Brissett is present for practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterback Jacoby Brissett and the Arizona Cardinals are “significantly” far apart on a new contract, per ESPN’s Josh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-688360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}