The Cardinals have to get down to a 53-man roster on Tuesday by 1 p.m. Arizona time, but they started the process on Monday but releasing 12 players, including quarterback Clayton Tune.<\/p>\n
The team will still have the chance to fill out a 16-man practice squad, so some of these players could still return. The Cardinals will have a quarterback on their practice squad, Tune is an option.<\/p>\n
The transactions bring the Cardinals’ roster down to 79 players.<\/p>\n
Some of the moves on Tuesday are expected to be players put on various injury lists. Rookie first-round draft pick Walter Nolen III has been on the Physically Unable to Perform list with a calf injury; coach Jonathan Gannon said Monday the Cardinals had not yet decided whether Nolen would be kept on PUP or included on the initial 53-man roster.<\/p>\n
If Nolen — or any player — is on PUP or IR-to-return at the first roster, that player cannot practice or play until after Week 4 games at the earliest.<\/p>\n
Tune, a 2023 fifth-round pick, had beat out Desmond Ridder in 2024 to be Kyler Murray’s backup. Tune had appeared in 13 games in his two seasons with one start, completing 14-of-23 passes for 70 yards and two interceptions.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals also released offensive lineman Roy Mbaeteka, although the Nigeria native is eligible to return on the practice squad as the international exemption.<\/p>\n
The full list of Tuesday’s cuts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals have to get down to a 53-man roster on Tuesday by 1 p.m. Arizona time, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[72029,72038,72028,72027,72030,72024,72026,72032,72025,72037,3,349,72031,72034,72036,99,72033,6182,72035],"class_list":["post-109732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-andre-baccellia","tag-benton-whitley","tag-clayton-tune","tag-darren-urban","tag-ekow-boye-doe","tag-featured-articles","tag-home-page-news-headlines","tag-mcclendon-curtis","tag-mega-feed","tag-nate-mccollum","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-oscar-cardenas","tag-patrick-jenkins","tag-roy-mbaeteka","tag-sports","tag-steven-gilmore","tag-transactions","tag-vi-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}