TEMPE, Ariz. — After months of negotiating, quarterback Jacoby Brissett and the Cardinals are still not close to reaching an agreement on a reworked deal for this season.<\/p>\n
A source told ESPN that the two sides are “significantly” far apart.<\/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 2026, the second year 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, Gardner Minshew II, whom Arizona signed as a free agent in March, had $5.14 million guaranteed by the team for 2026.<\/p>\n
The gap in the negotiations puts into question whether Brissett will report to the Cardinals for next week’s OTAs. Arizona will hold a mandatory minicamp for veterans and rookies June 8-10.<\/p>\n
Brissett started 12 games for Arizona last season and finished 2025 as the NFL’s top-ranked quarterback from Week 6, when he was given his first start after former Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray was injured, on dropbacks, play-actions, completions and attempts. Brissett was second in passing yards and fourth in completion percentage above expected.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, new Cardinals coach Mike LaFleur said the discussions on Brissett’s deal were the “same as where we were a few weeks ago.” LaFleur also said he has been in contact with Brissett but declined to go into further detail about their conversations.<\/p>\n
A source told ESPN earlier this offseason that Brissett has been informed by the Cardinals that he is their starting quarterback. That was a shift from March, right after Murray was released, when Brissett had not been told he was the starter-in-waiting, according to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, Ariz. — After months of negotiating, quarterback Jacoby Brissett and the Cardinals are still not close to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[100980,49,48,251666,514,82],"class_list":["post-687308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals-sports-football-team-team-statscom-355","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jacoby-brissett-sports-football-player-player-statscom-607047","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687308","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=687308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}