{"id":699999,"date":"2026-05-28T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699999\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:30:18","slug":"7-nfl-players-most-likely-to-win-2026-offensive-roy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699999\/","title":{"rendered":"7 NFL Players Most Likely to Win 2026 Offensive ROY Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Arizona Cardinals are in a contract dispute with quarterback Jacoby Brissett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">According to <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48846780\/jacoby-brissett-not-close-reworked-deal-cardinals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Josh Weinfuss<\/a> of ESPN, the Cardinals and Brissett are &#8220;significantly&#8221; far apart in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Even if Arizona agrees to terms with its journeyman starting QB, head coach Mike LaFleur could lean on the ground attack and short passing game, which would allow <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25248572-jeremiyah-love-nfl-draft-2026-scouting-report-arizona-cardinals-rb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jeremiyah Love<\/a> to see a lot of action. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Brissett isn&#8217;t an aggressive deep-ball passer. In 2025, he averaged 7.7 intended air yards per pass, which ranked 24th leaguewide, per <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"http:\/\/nextgenstats.nfl.com\/stats\/passing#average-intended-yards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Next Gen Stats<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In addition to Brissett&#8217;s conservative passing tendencies, Love&#8217;s draft status as the No. 3 overall pick suggests LaFleur has plans for him to make an immediate impact despite a crowded running back room that includes James Conner, Tyler Allgeier, Trey Benson, Bam Knight and Corey Kiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals are in a contract dispute with quarterback Jacoby Brissett. According to Josh Weinfuss of ESPN,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-699999","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\/699999","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=699999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}