Feb. 23, 2026, 10:12 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
NFL free agency begins in a couple of weeks. Teams can begin to negotiate with players whose contracts will expire beginning on March 9, and the new league year officially begins on March 11.<\/p>\n
The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> will be active in free agency, and they have players who will likely sign elsewhere.<\/p>\n NFL.com’s Gregg Rosenthal put together a list of the top 101 free agents<\/a> who should be available, and two impending Cardinals free agents make the list \u2014 defensive lineman Calais Campbell and safety Jalen Thompson.<\/p>\n No. 52 DL Calais Campbell<\/p>\n There\u2019s no official word about whether Campbell will retire. It\u2019s outrageous how he continually winds up being the best defensive lineman — or close to it — on every team he joins, with his 40th birthday (Sept. 1) now on the horizon.\u00a0<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n Campbell was productive enough in 2025 to be able to get another job, which Campbell is proud of. There will be interest. He had 6.5 sacks, tied for the most he has had in a season since 2018.<\/p>\n It will be a case of whether or not Campbell wants to play again in 2026, and where he is willing to play.<\/p>\n No. 73: S Jalen Thompson<\/p>\n Thompson just finished an effective stint on a three-year, $36 million extension in Arizona. He\u2019d be better known if he played anywhere else.<\/p>\n Thompson will likely land somewhere on a decent deal, but he has been pretty ordinary the last two seasons. He has not had an interception since 2023.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 23, 2026, 10:12 p.m. MT NFL free agency begins in a couple of weeks. Teams can begin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[159202,49,48,514,82,194922,194923,160670,160697,198869,159798,160668,160683,159095,159795,159089,159085],"class_list":{"0":"post-495864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","14":"tag-sstsncardinals","15":"tag-tagamerican-football","16":"tag-tagarizona-cardinals","17":"tag-tagcalais-campbell","18":"tag-tagnational-sports","19":"tag-tagnfl","20":"tag-tagnfl-hub","21":"tag-tagoverall-positive","22":"tag-tagsmg-listicle","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}