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An updated look at the Cardinals’ top cap hits in 2023 now that DeAndre Hopkins has been released.
The Arizona Cardinals prepare for the 2023 season with their second week of OTAs. They made a move to clear the roster of receiver DeAndre Hopkins, saving more than $8 million in cap space. It also removed one of the Cardinals’ top cap hits in 2023.
With Hopkins off the books, let’s see what contracts remain as the top cap hits in 2023.
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Humphries played in only eight games in 2022 because of a back injury.
The offseason always coms with lists and rankings. Right now, Pro Football Focus is running its series of positional rankings.
They ranked the top 32 offensive tackles in the league.
Arizona Cardinals left tackle D.J. Humphries didn’t make the list.
After his first Pro Bowl appearance following the 2021 season, Humphries played in only eight games last season with a back injury.
His overall PFF grade in 2022 was 72.3, which was 30th among tackles.
Perhaps his time missed and the uncertainty regarding his back right now (there have been no reports about how he has recovered) kept him from being mentioned.
Humphries had only missed one game in the previous three seasons and that was with COVID and not an injury.
But he does turn 30 later this year.
Should he be in the top 32?
That’s a tough call coming off his injury, but he probably should be.
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The Cardinals converted his roster bonus into a signing bonus, saving $5.3 million in caps space in 2023.
The Arizona Cardinals made a move that did not change the roster and did not change the compensation for a player but did clear some money off this year’s salary cap.
According to both ESPN’s Field Yates and NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, left tackle D.J. Humphries and the Cardinals tweaked his contract to save more than $5 million against the salary cap this season.
Pelissero called it a salary conversion but it wasn’t exactly that.
Humphries was due an $8 million roster bonus this month, all of which would count toward this year’s salary cap. He was paid that bonus, but it was converted into an option or restructure bonus, which prorates over the life of the contract.
As a result, instead of all $8 million counting against this year’s camp, only $2.67 million will, saving the Cardinals $5.33 million in cap space this year.
It will add $2.67 million in cap space in 2024 and 2025, the final two years of his contract.
Humphries is due $5.5 million in salary in 2023. He can earn up to $255,000 in per-game roster bonuses. His cap hit would have been as much as a little more than $19 million. Based on last year’s games played, his cap hit would have been almost $17.9 million.
Instead, his contract will count $12.54 million (based on last year’s games played) and as much as $13.67 million.
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The Cardinals are hopeful he will not need surgery and that rest will be sufficient to get things right.
The Arizona Cardinals placed left tackle D.J. Humphries on injured reserve on Saturday, giving them four of their five starters on the offensive line on IR. He had missed three games already with the injury.
He will not return this season.
“It just wasn’t progressing like we thought,” Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury told reporters Monday. “We were hopeful for a while that maybe it was something he could come back the last few weeks and play but at this point that won’t be possible.”
Kingsbury is hopeful the injury will not require surgery.
“I think he’s still checking out the options on that but we’re hopeful he can just rest it and it’ll settle down,” he said.
Humphries signed a contract extension before the season through 2025.
Josh Jones will continue to start at left tackle in his place.
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Marquise Brown makes his return to the lineup but D.J. Humphries will now have to miss at least another four games.
The Arizona Cardinals announced three roster moves related to injured reserve. Two were expected and one was a surprise.
Wide receiver Marquise Brown was activated from IR and will play on Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers. He was designated to return in Week 11. He has been out since Week 6. It will be the first time he and DeAndre Hopkins will be on the field together for a game.
They placed tight end Zach Ertz on injured reserve, a move that had not yet happened. He already has season-ending knee surgery. He suffered the injury in Week 10 against the Los Angeles Rams.
They also placed left tackle D.J. Humphries on injured reserve. He missed three of the last four games with it and now will have to miss at least the next four.
The Cardinals now have four of their original five starting offensive linemen on injured reserve. Josh Jones will start at left tackle. Right tackle Kelvin Beachum is the only one left who has not gotten hurt.
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Josh Jones will get the start at left tackle to face the 49ers’ Nice Bosa and his 9.5 sacks.
The Arizona Cardinals will be without their starting left tackle in Week 11. They will have to face the San Francisco 49ers and pass rusher Nick Bosa without D.J. Humphries.
Coach Kliff Kingsbury ruled Humphries out Friday when he spoke with reporters after practice, according to Darren Urban.
Humphries has not practiced yet this week with a back injury and it caused him to miss two games already. He missed the game in Week 8 against the Minnesota Vikings, returned in Week 9 against the Seattle Seahawks and then missed last week’s matchup with the Los Angeles Rams.
It means Josh Jones will get another start at left tackle.
Humphries had not missed any games with an injury since 2018. He missed one game last season with COVID but now you have to wonder if the back will become a long-term issue.
Jones will be tasked with limiting the impact of Bosa, who has 9.5 sacks in eight games.
The Cardinals and 49ers face off Monday night in Mexico City with a 6:15 p.m. kickoff Arizona time.
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He missed Sunday’s 34-26 loss with a back injury. Kliff Kingsbury wouldn’t commit to his being available against the Seahawks.
The Arizona Cardinals lost to the Minnesota Vikings 34-26 on Sunday with three starting offensive linemen missing. Left guard Justin Pugh is out for the rest of the year after tearing his ACL. Center Rodney Hudson missed his fourth straight game with a knee injury and left tackle D.J. Humphries missed a game for the first time this season with a back injury he suffered at the end of the Cardinals’ Week 7 win over the New Orleans Saints.
Humphries’ status for the Cardinals’ Week 9 home game this week against the Seattle Seahawks is in question.
“We’ll see how it goes,” coach Kliff Kingsbury said Monday. “It’s day-to-day right now, and that’s all we can kind of go with.”
Kingsbury did say that Humphries would have played on Sunday had the team allowed him to.
“We want to be smart with that deal.”
Josh Jones started in Humphries’ place was did not play poorly.
The Cardinals’ first injury report of the week will come out following Wednesday’s practice.
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The extension is actually $66.8 million over four seasons with $51.8 million in new money. Here are all the details of the deal.
The Arizona Cardinals inked left tackle D.J. Humphries to a contract extension that keeps him with the team through the 2025 season. The deal is worth almost $67 million.
We know that it reduces his cap hit for 2022, which was going to be the largest on the team.
The details of the contract have been released by Over the Cap.
Below, we go over the details of the contract.
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Humphries’ new cap hit in 2022 will be about $12.6 million, down from the original $19.3 million it was going to be,
The Arizona Cardinals made sure they kept their starting left tackle around for a while longer. They signed former first-round pick D.J. Humphries to a three-year extension that keeps him under contract through the 2025 season.
The deal is worth a reported $66.8 million.
The Cardinals actually save a few million dollars in cap space in 2022 with the deal.
According to ESPN’s Field Yates, the Cardinals save $6.7 million in cap space with the structure of the deal.
He was scheduled to have a cap hit of more than $19.3 million, the latest cap hit on the team.
He receives a $17 million signing bonus and will make roughly $21 million in cash in 2022. His new cap hit will be $12.6 million.
The savings will allow the Cardinals to potentially add a veteran player to their roster and gives them the flexibility to work on potential contract extensions with some young players on the final year of their rookie contracts like cornerback Byron Murphy, safety Jalen Thompson and defensive lineman Zach Allen.
The specifics of Humphries’ contract have not been released or reported yet.
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Humphries negotiated his own contract like DeAndre Hopkins and Larry Fitzgerald have done, but it was about preparing for life after football.
The Arizona Cardinals and left tackle D.J. Humphries agreed to a three-year contract through the 2025 season. It is worth nearly $67 million.
He handled his own negotiations for this contract instead of going through an agent.
He isn’t the first to do that in recent history.
Receiver DeAndre Hopkins negotiated his contract extension. Former Cardinals legend Larry Fitzgerald negotiated multiple contracts over the final seasons of his career following the passing of his longtime agent, Eugene Parker.
Humphries, speaking to reporters Wednesday, said it was not about anything bad that had happened with agents but rather something to prepare himself for his post-NFL career.
He praised the agents that did his last deal but said he wanted this experience.
“I probably wouldn’t do it again,” he said. “It was definitely fun to do.
“It was something I wanted to do. I want to be a businessman, so being able to do one of the biggest deals on my own for the first time, it was huge for me.”
He trusted that the team would not try to take advantage of him, so he was comfortable going through the experience by himself for the first time.
“I think it’s going to carry me on throughout my post-football life when I’m trying to do my own business deals,” he said, “I think I’ll have a lot more callous for all the stuff I’m going to try to do.”
There was one part that was hard for him — the “back-and-forth and the waiting.”
He admittedly is not a patient person, so the process of having conversations and then waiting a few days was difficult for him.
But now he becomes the only player since Larry Fitzgerald to have been drafted by the Cardinals and get two contract extensions.
With the deal, he can keep his dream alive of only playing for one team his entire career.
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