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Cardinals GM Won’t Rule Out Contract Extensions
GLENDALE — The Arizona Cardinals have a handful of potential contract extensions to address ahead of the 2024 season.
General manager Monti Ossenfort stepped to the podium and answered questions from local reporters for roughly 15 minutes over the weekend and was asked about some major pending deals set to expire – names such as Budda Baker and James Conner come to mind.
Ossenfort didn’t give much away.
“I think those are case by case. I think we got players that are at varying different contract levels. Some are signed long-term, some are up after this year. I think different players fall under different categories. I think really that’s a case-by-case basis, and we’ll deal with with those as they come up,” said Ossenfort.
Baker – also asked about his contract status with the team earlier in camp – didn’t give much away either.
“For me, I”m just controlling what I can control. Just controlling [focus] on having a great season as a team and of course personally, but as a team,” Baker said.
“Just winning games and letting everything else take care of itself. Mentally I’m looking forward to this season and looking forward to playing great football with the guys and winning games – that’s my sole focus.”
Conner – who just hit his first 1,000-yard rushing season with the organization – is also set to hit free agency next offseason.
“It’d be awesome to finish my career here, but no, nothing changes. If anything, it’s time to turn it up even more going into my last year of the deal,” Conner said previously.
“Thankful I got the chance to see the last year of it, so I’ll go into it, give everything I got this year and see what happens next year. Hopefully [I will] stay but I understand the business.”
Baker and Conner are both big names Arizona will have to decide on eventually, though there’s other names the Cardinals will have to take care of ahead of 2025’s free agency cycle.
The team’s leading tackler from 2023 Kyzir White is set to hit the open market along with starting linemen Will Hernandez/Hjlate Froholdt and former first-round pick Zaven Collins among others.
We’ll see if any deals get done ahead of the regular season – though Ossenfort (no pun intended) is keeping the cards close to his chest.
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Person accused of making terroristic threats to medical facility in northern Arizona
PAGE, AZ (AZFamily) — A person accused of making terroristic threats toward a northern Arizona medical facility was arrested Friday morning.
Just after 10:30 p.m., police received a report of a person calling the facility and threatening to kill staff and Native Americans, according to the Page Police Department.
Authorities said staff placed the facility on lockdown until officers identified the suspect and arrested them outside their home.
The suspect was booked on charges of disorderly conduct, threatening and intimidating, and making terroristic threats. Police have not publicly identified the person.
“The Page Police Department is grateful for and supports the medical staff’s decision to put the medical facility into lockdown until the suspect was arrested and the situation was rendered safe,” the department said in a Facebook post.
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NFL mock draft: 4-round projections for Arizona Cardinals
In these four-round projections, the Arizona Cardinals don’t get a tackle until the fourth round.
We are just days away from the 2026 NFL draft, and that means some final mock drafts. What direction will the draft take the Arizona Cardinals?
Draft Wire’s Curt Popejoy put together a four-round mock draft for the Cardinals. They go defense early but rebuild the offense for 2026 and moving forward, including landing their potential franchise quarterback.
Cardinals 4-round mock draft
Here are the players in the first four rounds Popejoy projects for Arizona.
- Round 1: Ohio State EDGE/LB Arvell Reese
- Round 2: Alabama QB Ty Simpson
- Round 3: Clemson WR Antonio Williams
- Round 4: Florida OT Austin Barber
What we think of the picks
The Cardinals want to trade out of the third pick and draft a tackle, so not getting a tackle until Round 4 seems unlikely, although they did meet with Barber. They do have options at right tackle for 2026 already on the roster.
Reese would be a great pick if they don’t trade back, as they badly need pass-rushing help off the edge.
Drafting Simpson seems inevitable at this point, so it has to be in a mock draft, although the feeling is they will need to go up into Round 1 again to get him.
Williams has speed and is almost six feet tall, but he does have short arms.
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Detroit Lions NFL Draft Injury Report: Arizona State CB Keith Abney
Due to significant injuries to the CB position last year which includes a shoulder surgery for Terrion Arnold, the Lions CB position scored a 6/10 need on my Lions Defensive Draft Need Rankings. Thus, an early-round selection of a young, healthy prospect like Keith Abney would not come as a surprise. He enters the draft with very low medical concern level.
Here is the excerpt from my medical report on Keith Abney:
(Ages in parentheses are at start of 2026 season and are factored into the concern level. Injury info and ages based on available public information are unverified and subject to update. Games played data courtesy of sports-reference.com.)
Keith Abney, CB (21) – Arizona State
Projected round 2-3. #43 on Jeff Risdon board Feb 19.
Concern level 0/10
There is an isolated report of a hand injury but no corroborating information. Even if the hand injury is true, that’s of minimal to no long-term concern.
His availability in his final two seasons has been perfect. Overall, Abney appears to be medically clean and is at an excellent age.
He finished college with 6 INT and 21 PBU.
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