Cardinals tight end Trey McBride is signed through the 2029 season, so he has good reason to be interested in who will be doing the quarterbacking in Arizona over the coming years.
Jacoby Brissett and Gardner Minshew are the veteran options heading into 2026, but Brissett’s absence from most of the offseason program left plenty of work for Minshew and third-round pick Carson Beck. The prospect of striking gold with Beck is an appealing one for the Cardinals and McBride was asked for his early impressions of the rookie during an appearance on Bussin’ With the Boys.
“He’s huge. He looks like a tight end,” McBride said. “I’m like s—t, bigger than me, you know? But, no, he’s a stud. He throws the ball really well. I think he has a chance to be a really good player in this league. . . . I don’t know about Week 1 unless something crazy happens, but he definitely has a chance to be a guy for sure.”
The Cardinals took running back Jeremiyah Love in the first round this April and they’ll have a core that involves Love, McBride and Beck in place for several years if everything can break their way this fall.
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Cardinals tight end Trey McBride respects the Seahawks, but doesn’t like them.
Asked on Bussin’ With The Boys which NFC West rival he dislikes the most, McBride picked Seattle, saying they’re a good team in a good stadium, which makes Seattle a difficult place to play.
“To be honest, I think it’s Seattle,” McBride said. “That’s a tough place to play. Their defense is a bunch of shit talkers. They have a really good team, too, so I feel like every time we go to Seattle it’s such a hostile environment. Lumen Field is such a cool place to play, and they’ve gotten the best of us the last couple times, so it would be nice to get back on the winning side.”
Asked if the Seahawks’ defense locked him up, McBride pushed back on that. When the Cardinals played at Seattle in Week 10, McBride had nine catches for 127 yards and a touchdown in a 44-22 loss.
“I don’t know about locked me up, I went for like 130, but we lost,” McBride said.
Although McBride personally has had a couple of big games in Seattle, the Cardinals are 0-8 against the Seahawks in McBride’s four seasons in Arizona.
The NFC West won more games than any other division in the NFL last season, but the Cardinals didn’t do much to contribute to the effort.
Arizona went 3-14 while the Seahawks, Rams and 49ers each won at least 12 games while advancing to at least the divisional round of the playoffs. The Seahawks beat the Rams in the NFC title game before winning the Super Bowl, so it wasn’t just regular season success for the division.
The Seahawks have most of their core players back while the 49ers hope to be healthier and the Rams have loaded up for another run by trading for Myles Garrett and Trent McDuffie this offseason. The Cardinals, on the other hand, have a new head coach in Mike LaFleur, an uncertain quarterback situation and low expectations to make a move up the standings in 2026.
During an appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio, Cardinals cornerback Will Johnson said he loves the chance “to go against the best every week” and that he sees it as a chance to upset those expectations.
“I think we got a good opportunity in front of us to surprise a lot of people this year,” Johnson said. “They’re just continuing to try to stack the teams against us, but we gonna be ready when the time comes.”
Johnson credited LaFleur with doing a good job of establishing a new culture around the Cardinals and the hope is that leads to improvement on the field even if the overall circumstances mean that they might have the same view of the rest of the division come the end of the year.
The Cardinals will open training camp at State Farm Stadium on July 22.
The first of seven practices open to fans will happen two days later, on Friday, July 24. Five of the open practices are scheduled for 4 p.m. PT.
An exclusive practice for season-ticket members will take place as part of the league-wide “Back Together Weekend” on Aug. 2.
The final open practice on Sunday, Aug. 9 will be the annual red/white practice.
While parking and admission are free, digital tickets are required for entry. Tickets can be reserved by visiting www.azcardinals.com/camp.
The Cardinals have four preseason games, headlined by the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 6.
The Cardinals will have a new radio play-by-play announcer for the 2026 season.
ESPN announced that Dave Pasch has signed an exclusive multi-year contract with the network. Pasch will add NFL coverage to the work he’s already been doing for ESPN covering the NBA, college football and college basketball.
The exclusive nature of the deal means that Pasch will leave his role with the Cardinals after 24 seasons.
“It’s been almost half my life, so it’s been quite the journey,” Pasch said, via the Cardinals’ website. “It’s a journey I did not think would come to an end. It’s one that I will look on with very fond memories and I think the biggest reason why is because of the people that I got to work with over the years.”
Pasch has worked for ESPN since 2003 and the network said more details on his NFL role will be announced in the coming weeks.
Jeremiyah Love led the nation in rushing yards, rushing touchdowns and overall touchdowns each of the past two seasons at Notre Dame. In 2025, he won the Doak Walker Award as the nation’s best running back and was a Heisman Trophy semifinalist.
The Cardinals used the No. 3 overall pick on Love, and he likely will get plenty of chances to do what he did the past two seasons for the Fighting Irish.
Love, though, said he has no personal goals for his rookie season.
“I’ve learned throughout my time just playing football, the personal goals aren’t going to get you really where you want to get to. It’s all about the team at the end of the day,” Love said Monday, via NFL.com. “As long as you do your part on the team, usually you’ll get the personal accolades and the personal goals that you have in your mind. So, in my mind, my goal for myself is to jell really well with this team and do whatever coach [Mike] LaFleur wants me to do, and do it to the best of my ability.”
Love is the favorite for Offensive Rookie of the Year ahead of Fernando Mendoza and Carnell Tate, but the 2025 All-American isn’t even thinking about the award.
“That’s kind of how I’ve always been,” Love said. “Never really been the type to set . . . well, I’ve always been the type to set goals for myself, but they’ve always been connected to the team in some type of way. Like last year, I wanted to win the Doak Walker Award in college, wanted to win the Heisman, but those things weren’t going to happen unless I did what I had to do for my team and play my role for the team. Both of them go hand in hand, so I kind of try to make everything team-oriented.
“At the end of the day, it’s a team sport. You can’t do anything by yourself, especially as a running back. Got to have a good O-line, got to have a quarterback that can read defenses and see a lot of things, and you’ve got to have receivers that can take the top off to lighten up the box, as well. Everything goes hand in hand, so I try not to make things personal and make it all team-oriented. Because if the team is good, a lot of times you’re going to do good as well.”
As good as Love was last season, Notre Dame did not make the College Football Playoff. In 2024, Love played through a knee injury in the National Championship loss to Ohio State but had only six touches for 8 yards.
Cardinals fourth-round pick Kaleb Proctor became the latest member of this year’s draft class to sign with the team.
The Cardinals announced Proctor’s signing on Monday afternoon. The defensive lineman agreed to a four-year deal and third-round quarterback Carson Beck is now the team’s only unsigned pick.
Proctor is not likely to make much of an impact in the first year of his contract. The rookie tore his meniscus during spring practice and head coach Mike LaFleur said that the injury could keep him out for the entire year.
Proctor had 13 tackles for loss and nine sacks at Southeastern Louisiana during the 2025 season.
The offseason programs around the league have largely wrapped up for 2026, with players and coaches around the league now experiencing some time off.
But training camps are just a few weeks away from opening.
The NFL announced the camp report dates for all 32 teams on Monday, with the first ones opening up in less than a month.
Below are the camp locations and report dates:
Arizona Cardinals: State Farm Stadium | Rookies: 7/22 | Veterans 7/22
Atlanta Falcons: Atlanta Falcons Training Facility | Rookies: 7/24 | Veterans: 7/28
Baltimore Ravens: Under Armour Performance Center | Rookies: 7/24 | Veterans: 7/28
Buffalo Bills: St. John Fisher University | Rookies: 7/21 | Veterans: 7/28
Carolina Panthers: Bank of America Stadium | Rookies: 7/21 | Veterans: 7/22
Chicago Bears: Halas Hall | Rookies: 7/25 | Veterans: 7/28
Cincinnati Bengals: Paycor Stadium | Rookies: 7/25 | Veterans: 7/28
Cleveland Browns: CrossCountry Mortgage Campus | Rookies: 7/23 | Veterans: 7/28
Dallas Cowboys: Marriott Residence Inn Oxnard | Rookies: 7/28 | Veterans: 7/28
Denver Broncos: Broncos Park Powered by CommonSpirit | Rookies: 7/22 | Veterans: 7/28
Detroit Lions: Meijer Performance Center | Rookies: 7/25 | Veterans: 7/28
Green Bay Packers: Lambeau Field | Rookies: 7/27 | Veterans: 7/28
Houston Texans: Houston Methodist Training Center | Rookies: 7/21 | Veterans: 7/28
Indianapolis Colts: Grand Park | Rookies: 7/27 | Veterans: 7/28
Jacksonville Jaguars: Miller Electric Center | Rookies: 7/25 | Veterans: 7/28
Kansas City Chiefs: Missouri Western State University | Rookies: 7/28 | Veterans: 7/28
Las Vegas Raiders: Intermountain Health Performance Center | Rookies: 7/23 | Veterans: 7/28
Los Angeles Chargers: The Bolt | Rookies: 7/23 | Veterans: 7/28
Los Angeles Rams: Loyola Marymount University | Rookies: 7/25 | Veterans: 7/25
Miami Dolphins: Baptist Health Training Complex | Rookies: 7/21 | Veterans: 7/28
Minnesota Vikings: TCO Performance Center | Rookies: 7/26 | Veterans: 7/28
New England Patriots: New Balance Athletics Center | Rookies: 7/21 | Veterans: 7/24
New Orleans Saints: Ochsner Sports Performance Center | Rookies: 7/28 | Veterans: 7/28
New York Giants: Quest Diagnostics Training Center/The Greenbrier | Rookies: 7/23 | Veterans: 7/28
New York Jets: Athletic Health Jets Training Center | Rookies: 7/25 | Veterans: 7/28
Philadelphia Eagles: Jefferson Health Training Complex | Rookies: 7/28 | Veterans: 7/28
Pittsburgh Steelers: Saint Vincent College | Rookies: 7/28 | Veterans: 7/28
San Francisco 49ers: SAP Performance Facility | Rookies: 7/18 | Veterans: 7/25
Seattle Seahawks: Virginia Mason Athletic Center | Rookies: 7/17 | Veterans: 7/24
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: AdventHealth Training Center | Rookies: 7/27 | Veterans: 7/28
Tennessee Titans: Vanderbilt Health Football Center | Rookies: 7/23 | Veterans: 7/28
Washington Commanders: Commanders Park | Rookies: 7/24 | Veterans: 7/28
The NFL has announced the full list of joint practices that will take place during training camps this summer.
The first set of them will take place on August 11 in four different locations. The Cowboys and Rams will practice in Los Angeles, the Colts will visit the Patriots, the Bucs will work out at the Jets’ facility and the Titans will go to Santa Clara to practice with the 49ers.
All in all, there will be 28 teams working in joint sessions in August. The Lions, Steelers, Chiefs and Broncos are the teams that will not hold joint practices.
The full list of joint practices is below with the host team listed second. If there are multiple practices scheduled, the date of the first practice is listed.
August 11 — Cowboys-Rams; Colts-Patriots; Buccaneers-Jets; Titans-49ers.
August 12 — Dolphins-Commanders.
August 13 — Jaguars-Saints.
August 18 — 49ers-Chargers; Raiders-Texans; Saints-Cowboys.
August 19 — Falcons-Colts; Ravens-Vikings; Panthers-Jaguars; Eagles-Patriots.
August 20 — Bills-Browns; Bears-Bengals; Saints-Rams; Giants-Dolphins.
August 21 — Seahawks-Titans.
August 25 — Buccaneers-Jaguars.
August 26 — Cardinals-Packers; Texans-Panthers; Commanders-Ravens.
August 27 — Bears-Titans.
Playing in the Hall of Fame Game means an earlier reporting date for training camp than some players might prefer, but one member of the Cardinals is really looking forward to their matchup with the Panthers.
Rookie quarterback Carson Beck has gotten some extra work this offseason with Jacoby Brissett skipping voluntary workouts and he said on Wednesday that he’s itching to continue the process of mastering “the mental side” of playing quarterback in the NFL. The third-round pick figures to get plenty of work against Carolina to help in that process and Beck said he has his eyes on the preseason opener.
“It’s already on my mind right now,” Beck said, via David Brandt of the Associated Press. “The break is not much of a break. Obviously, we’ll be working. I’m just speaking for myself, but the other guys understand that, too. We know the mission that we’re on, especially for myself. Making sure I’m prepared and ready for those moments.”
Brissett is still seen as the likely starter to open the season in Arizona, but other rookies have used strong preseasons to upset depth charts and Beck’s focus on maximizing every rep should only help his chances of getting a chance to play in meaningful games in the near future.
