{"id":518413,"date":"2026-03-12T04:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/518413\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T04:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:35:07","slug":"jacoby-brissett-hasnt-been-told-hell-be-the-cardinals-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/518413\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacoby Brissett hasn&#8217;t been told he&#8217;ll be the Cardinals&#8217; starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Kyler Murray officially gone from Arizona, the Cardinals need a starting quarterback. Some believe it will be Jacoby Brissett. If it is, that will be news to Brissett.<\/p>\n<p>As recently noted by Josh Weinfuss of ESPN, Brissett hasn\u2019t been informed that he enters 2026 as QB1.<\/p>\n<p>Per Weinfuss: \u201cAccording to a source, the Cardinals <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joshweinfuss\/status\/2031485846239773125?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">have not told Brissett<\/a> that he will be their starting quarterback in 2026. Brissett is still under contract for this season and is scheduled to earn $4.88 million. Arizona agreed to a one-year deal with Gardner Minshew worth about $5.75 million but could grow to $8.25 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Brissett has a $4.88 million base salary plus $510,000 in per-game active roster bonuses and a $50,000 workout bonus, pushing his base package to $5.44 million. That\u2019s still less than the Minshew base package.<\/p>\n<p>Brissett also can earn up to $2 million in incentives. Again, that\u2019s less then the Minshew upside.<\/p>\n<p>Neither player has a contract that cries out \u201cstarter.\u201d Last year, the bottom of the veteran starter market belonged to Giants quarterback Russell Wilson, at a base package of $10.5 million. He ultimately started three games.<\/p>\n<p>Our guess? Brissett will be gone, eventually. Minshew will be the backup. And the Cardinals will add a starter.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk Cousins <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/will-the-cardinals-make-a-play-for-kirk-cousins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">continues to make the most sense<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Kyler Murray officially gone from Arizona, the Cardinals need a starting quarterback. Some believe it will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-518413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518413","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=518413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}