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USA Today
17-05-2025
- Business
- USA Today
All Arizona Cardinals' UDFAs have salary guarantees
All Arizona Cardinals' UDFAs have salary guarantees A look at the guarantees for the Cardinals' six rookie free agents The Arizona Cardinals only signed six undrafted rookies this year. They all got salary guarantees in addition to signing bonuses. Based on the numbers, they expect at least five of the six to spend 2025 on their practice squad. How do we know that? The practice squad salary for a rookie is $13,000 per week, which comes to $234,000 over the 18 weeks of the season. Five of the Cardinals' six rookie free agents have $234,000 in salary guarantees for 2025. The sixth, tight end Oscar Cardenas, has $50,000 in guaranteed salary. There isn't any real risk for the Cardinals in offering those guarantees. The guarantees show they want the player on the team for at least a season. If they make the roster, they get paid more than that. If they are cut, they sign them to the practice squad and would get paid that amount anyway. If they are cut and another team claims them, the new team assumes the contract and the Cardinals are off the hook. And if the Cardinals cut them and they sign with a different team's practice squad, the offset language that comes standard in rookie contracts means that the Cardinals are again off the hook. With that, here are the six rookie free agents for the Cardinals, their signing bonuses and their salary guarantees. All would make $840,000 in salary on an NFL roster. Arizona Cardinals UDFA salary, guarantees OL Jeremiah Byers: $40,000 signing bonus, $234,000 guaranteed salary, $274,000 total guarantees OL Valentin Senn: $40,000 signing bonus, $234,000 guaranteed salary, $274,000 total guarantees OL Josh Fryar: $35,000 signing bonus, $234,000 guaranteed salary, $269,000 total guarantees DL Elijah Simmons: $35,000 signing bonus, $234,000 guaranteed salary, $269,000 total guarantees WR Bryson Green: $30,000 signing bonus, $234,000 guaranteed salary, $264,000 total guarantees TE Oscar Cardenas: $10,000 signing bonus, $50,000 guaranteed salary, $60,000 total guarantees When final roster cutdowns happen in August, all but Cardenas are basically a lock to be signed to the practice squad. Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire's Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify, YouTube or Apple podcasts.
USA Today
09-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Arizona Cardinals open rookie mincamp with no tryout players
Arizona Cardinals open rookie mincamp with no tryout players The only players in rookie minicamp were seven draft picks and six rookie free agents. The Arizona Cardinals took the practice field on Friday. Well, a few Arizona Cardinals took the practice field. It was the first of three days of rookie minicamp. One thing was different about this year's rookie minicamp. There were exactly zero tryout players. The only players participating were the team's seven draft picks and six rookie free agents. Arizona Cardinals rookie minicamp roster WR Bryson Green (undrafted) TE Oscar Cardenas (undrafted) OL Hayden Conner (Round 6) OL Jeremiah Byers (undrafted) OL Josh Fryar (undrafted) OL Valentin Senn (undrafted) DL Walter Nolen (Round 1) DL Elijah Simmons (undrafted) OLB Jordan Burch (Round 3) ILB Cody Simon (Round 4) CB Will Johnson (Round 2) CB Denzel Burke (Round 5) S Kitan Crawford (Round 7) This continues to be a departure of what perhaps is the NFL tradition. In years past, the Cardinals would bring in scores of rookies and young players, and sometimes even established veterans, in with a full three days of practice. it was a crash course into the NFL and create competition, allowing tryout players a shot at making the offseason roster for OTAs and beyond. However, under head coach Jonathan Gannon, that has not been the case. If there have been tryout players, it has been limited. It is more about pouring information into the rookies so they are better prepared for OTAs, mandatory minicamp and training camp. They will only be on the field twice, Friday and Saturday. They will have meetings on Sunday but will not be on the field. Then they jump in with the veterans for the second week of Phase 2 of the offseason program. Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire's Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify, YouTube or Apple podcasts.
USA Today
05-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
2025 Arizona Cardinals UDFA profile: TE Oscar Cardenas
2025 Arizona Cardinals UDFA profile: TE Oscar Cardenas What there is to know about Cardinals rookie free agent tight end Oscar Cardenas The Arizona Cardinals, following the 2025 NFL draft, signed six rookie free agents who went undrafted. They round out the 90-man offseason roster and, at the end of this week, will get their first NFL experience with rookie minicamp. Before that takes place, we will go over each player, their traits and college career, so you know more about them. We continue with UTSA tight end Oscar Cardenas TE Oscar Cardenas college career Cardenas spent six season at UTSA. He played in 65 games, starting 40 and finished as the school's all-time leader among tight ends in catches (65), receiving yards (1,138) and receiving touchdowns (9). He was a three-time all-conference selection. In 2024, he was a semifinalist for William V. Campbell Trophy semifinalist given to a player with the best combination of academics, leadership and on-field performance. Dane Brugler had him as the No. 124 tight end in the draft class. NFL Draft Diamonds writes that he is a good blocker at the line of scrimmage. TE Oscar Cardenas physical traits Cardenas is 6-foot-4 and 265 pounds. He has 9 1/4-inch hands and 32 7/8-inch arms. He did not do athletic testing at his pro day, except for 22 reps of the bench press. He had a knee injury. NFL Draft Scout projects his 40 time at 4.89 seconds. Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire's Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify, YouTube or Apple podcasts.
