The Arizona Cardinals enter a critical offseason in 2022 after failing to advance past the first round of the playoffs and losing five of their final six games. 2022 will be the final year of quarterback Kyler Murray’s cost-controlled rookie contract so it is the last year the Cardinals can try and add higher-priced talent around him.
However, they have a problem.
Based on projections from Over the Cap, the Cardinals are going to be over the salary cap.
Based on their contracts on the roster, the Cardinals would be more than $800,000 over the cap if they do nothing. They are one of 10 teams currently set to be over the cap.
If they have plans of making moves in free agency, they will need to make some difficult moves in terms of cuts and perhaps some redone contracts.
It would appear that ownership is going to give general manager Steve Keim the opportunity to come out of it and improve the team.
It is the mess he got the team in. If he can pull them out of it and win games, he will be given the opportunity to work around Murray’s salary in 2023 and beyond.
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