{"id":825884,"date":"2026-07-27T00:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825884\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:10:29","slug":"cardinals-jacoby-brissett-agree-to-one-year-re-worked-contract-for-15-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825884\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals, Jacoby Brissett agree to one-year, re-worked contract for $15.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> have secured their starting quarterback. The Cardinals and veteran quarterback Jacoby Brissett<\/a> have agreed on a deal that will increase his 2026 compensation to $15.5 million guaranteed and up to $21 million with incentives, according<\/a> to ESPN. The deal is a jump from the $4.88 million in base salary he was scheduled to make this season on year two of a two-year deal with the team.<\/p>\n

The deal increased the number on the check, but did not add any years to the deal, meaning the 33-year-old is still set to become an unrestricted free agent after the 2026 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brissett, who joined the Cardinals in 2025, skipped most of the team’s offseason program as he sought out a new deal. As the team’s practices began this week, he participated but did not do 11-on-11 drills. Cardinals coach Mike LeFleur said, despite missing time with the team, he feels confident in Brissett’s understanding of the offense, as they look to bounce back from their 3-14 record last season.<\/p>\n

“He’s a smart dude, he’s played a lot of football,” LaFleur said<\/a>. “It’s learning a whole different language. I’m not going to put any kind of (timeline) on that. … I like where he’s at from a learning standpoint.”<\/p>\n

Last season, Brissett started 12 of the 14 games he appeared in, going 1-11 in those starts. It marked the most starts for the veteran since 2019, coming in for an injured Kyler Murray<\/a>, who was released by Arizona and joined the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> this offseason. Brissett finished the 2025 season with 3,366 passing yards, 23 touchdowns, a career high, and eight interceptions.<\/p>\n

With Murray, the 2019 No. 1 overall pick, now off the depth chart, Brissett will be the team’s starter heading into Week 1, after beginning last season as QB2. The team also has Gardner Minshew<\/a> and Carson Beck<\/a> in the QB room.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals are Brissett’s sixth team and seventh time moving squads, having done two stints with the New England Patriots<\/a>, who drafted him at No. 91 overall in 2016. He played for the Indianapolis Colts<\/a> from 2017 to 2020, spent one year with the Miami Dolphins<\/a>, Cleveland Browns<\/a> and Washington Commanders<\/a>\u00a0and then had a one-year second stint with New England in 2024.<\/p>\n

Brissett holds the NFL record for the most completions in a regular-season game with 47, accomplished in 2025 with the Cardinals.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals will begin their regular season on the road against the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> on Sept. 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals have secured their starting quarterback. The Cardinals and veteran quarterback Jacoby Brissett have agreed on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[1258,64,63,16089,104240,1238,3895,55563,1246,55564,5380,3052,1233,1239,187,1231,593,85,1272],"class_list":["post-825884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cardinals","tag-carson-beck","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-contract","tag-gardner-minshew","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-jacoby-brissett","tag-kyler-murray","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-money","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825884","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=825884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}