Receiver Kendrick Bourne has left the 49ers in free agency for a second time.
Five years after Bourne exited San Francisco to sign with the Patriots, Bourne is leaving the 49ers to sign with the Cardinals.
Via Cameron Wolfe of NFL Media, Bourne has agreed to terms on a two-year, $10 million deal with Arizona. The deal has a maximum value of $12 million.
Bourne returned to the 49ers in 2025, after four years in New England. He caught 37 passes for 551 yards in 16 regular-season games last year.
His best season came in 2021 — his first with the Patriots — when he had 55 receptions for 800 yards and five touchdowns.
Defensive lineman Roy Lopez is heading back to Arizona.
NFL Media reports that Lopez has agreed to sign with the Cardinals as a free agent. It is a two-year, $11.5 million deal with $7 million in guaranteed money.
Lopez played for the Cardinals in 2023 and 2024 before signing with the Lions last year. Nick Rallis was the Arizona defensive coordinator in those seasons and he remained with the team through the head coaching change that saw Mike LaFleur replace Jonathan Gannon.
Lopez had 30 tackles and two sacks in 17 games for the Lions last season. He had 70 tackles, a sack, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery during his first stint with the Cardinals.
The Cardinals are re-signing defensive lineman L.J. Collier to a one-year deal worth $2.5million, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports.
Collier, 30, has spent the past three seasons in Arizona.
He entered the NFL as a first-round pick of the Seahawks in 2019, and spent his first four seasons in Seattle. Collier totaled 40 tackles, three sacks, five passes defensed and 13 quarterback hits in his time there.
Collier signed with the Cardinals before the 2023 season. He missed 16 games that season and 13 games in 2025.
In his career, Collier has played only 67 games with 32 starts. He has recorded 77 tackles, 6.5 sacks, 21 quarterback hits and seven passes defensed.
#MinshewMania is headed to the desert.
Quarterback Gardner Minshew is signing a one-year deal with the Cardinals, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports.
The contract is worth $8 million, per Schefter.
Minshew, 29, spent last season with the Chiefs. While he started one game after quarterback Patrick Mahomes went down with a torn ACL, Minshew suffered a bone bruise in his knee that kept him out for the rest of the season.
Minshew has started at least one game every season since the Jaguars selected him in the sixth round of the 2019 draft. He went 7-6 as a starter for Indianapolis in 2023, earning a Pro Bowl berth. He started nine games for the Raiders in 2024, completing 66.3 percent of his throws for 2,013 yards with nine touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
In all, Minshew has appeared in 63 games with 47 starts for Jacksonville, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, and Kansas City.
With Kyler Murray on his way out, Minshew will join a QBs room with Jacoby Brissett and Kedon Slovis.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said recently that he plans to “bust the budget” when it comes to adding players to improve their defense in 2026 and the team made its first free agency splash on Sunday afternoon.
According to multiple reports, they have agreed to a three-year deal with safety Jalen Thompson. Thompson, who is No. 69 on PFT’s top free agent list, stands to make a maximum of $36 million under the terms of the deal.
Thompson joined the Cardinals as a fifth-round pick in the 2019 supplemental draft and spent the last seven seasons in Arizona. He started all 62 games he played over the last four of those seasons and wrapped up his time with the NFC West by recording 95 tackles, a sack and a forced fumble in 2025.
The Cowboys also agreed to a trade with the Packers that will bring defensive lineman Rashan Gary to Dallas.
