Humphries’ extension gives him the third-highest average salary in the NFL among tackles behind Trent Williams and David Bakhtiari.
The Arizona Cardinals announced a three-year contract extension with starting left tackle D.J Humphries, which keeps him under contract and as quarterback Kyler Murray’s blindside protector through the 2025 season.
We now know some of the numbers of the contract.
According to NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport, the extension is worth $66.8 million with $34 million in guaranteed money,
He will be paid $21 million in 2022.
In terms of contract value, because it is a three-year extension, technically the per-year average is a little less than $22.3 million, which would give him the third-highest per-year average among offensive linemen.
San Francisco’s Trent Williams is atop the list with an average of just more than $23 million, followed by Green Bay’s David Bakhtiari’s average of $23 million. Humphries is followed by Houston’s Laremy Tunsil, who has an average of $22 million.
He was due to make $14 million in salary in 2022. He will be paid $21 million between any signing bonus and salary this season now, and his cap hit will surely go down.
It was scheduled to be more than $19 million, the highest number on the team. That number will likely decrease, as much of the $21 million he will be paid will come in the way of a signing bonus, which prorates for cap purposes over the life of the contract.
The Arizona Cardinals have locked in their starting left tackle for another three seasons. The team announced it signed tackle D.J. Humphries to a contract extension through the 2025 season.
Humphries, the Cardinals’ first-round pick in 2015 and starting left tackle since 2017, was entering the final season of a three-year deal he signed in 2020.
Humphries enters his eighth season with the team and played in the Pro Bowl for the first time in his career last season. After missing a lot of games early in his career due to injury, he has missed only one game in the last three seasons and that was when he tested positive for COVID-19.
Humphries was due to make $14 million in salary in 2022 and had the team’s largest cap hit at more than $19 million.
The cap number will surely come down.
He and center Rodney Hudson are the only starting offensive linemen under contract beyond this season.
Kliff Kingsbury believes Humphries could be back by the end of the week. He has a GI illness that is not contagious.
The Arizona Cardinals have not had left tackle D.J. Humphries on the field yet in training camp. He missed all last week and the start of this week in training camp with what head coach Kliff Kingsbury described as an illness.
Humphries moves up from No. 4 to No. 2 in 2022 with the departure of Andrew Whitworth and Duane Brown.
The NFC West had four quality left tackles for several years. The players are different now. The Arizona Cardinals still have D.J. Humphries and the San Francisco 49ers still have Trent Williams, but the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams will have new starters as Andrew Whitworth retired after the Rams won the Super Bowl and the Seahawks moved on from Duane Brown.
Below are this year’s NFC West rankings at left tackle.
With Kyler Murray’s new deal done, who should be the next to get a new contract? Vote in the poll.
The Arizona Cardinals took care of their most pressing contractual issue Thursday. They agreed to terms with quarterback Kyler Murray on a contract extension worth $230.5 million that keeps him under contract through the 2028 season.
With that contract out of the way, there are a few players who are next in line for extensions.
Cornerback Byron Murphy, safety Jalen Thompson, left tackle D.J. Humphries and defensive end Zach Allen all enter the final years of their contracts. Receiver Hollywood Brown, whom they acquired in a draft-day trade this offseason, has just two years left on his deal.
All are expected to be major contributors this coming season.
Murphy, Thompson and Allen are all on their rookie contracts still. Any new deal would likely increase their hit against the salary cap. Humphries, though, has the largest cap hit on the team this season at more than $19 million. An extension would create cap space for this season.
Which player should be the next order of business for the Cardinals? Vote in the poll below.
Here are some of the players to wear No. 74 for the Cardinals over the years.
On this fine Wednesday in the Arizona Cardinals’ offseason, we are less than a month away from the start of training camp. We are also 74 days away from the Cardinals’ season opener.
In 74 days, the Cardinals will take the field at State Farm Stadium to face the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 1.
No. 74 has belonged to starting left tackle D.J. Humphries since he entered the league in 2015. He is now in his eighth season.
He and other players over the years to wear No. 74 are below.
Humphries says people who don’t think Murray is the future of the Cardinals are fools and need to stop day drinking.
The offseason for the Arizona Cardinals has been filled with talk about quarterback Kyler Murray, whether it is about his leadership, his agent’s contract manifesto, his contract demands, his future or whether he is at OTAs.
While fans worry about the contract situation and whether or not it will affect how Murray plays, teammate and starting left tackle D.J. Humphries isn’t worried.
Speaking to the media after practice this week on Monday, Humphries explained that former Cardinals offensive lineman Andre Smith once told him he should never be surprised by anything in the NFL. He maintains that approach.
“Nothing that the league can show me is something that I haven’t seen before as surprising,” Humphries said. “I just see it all as a part of business. Certain stuff has got to go a certain way for both parties to be happy and they’ll figure it out. I stay out of stuff like that. I don’t want anyone in my business when I’m talking about stuff.”
This has been the same thing that has been said by coaches and players. Murray’s status is not a distraction. It is not a problem. He has the support of his teammates, despite what people might think.
“I support my guy all the way,” Humphries added. “That’s my quarterback.”
He took things further, making it clear that he knows that Murray is part of the Cardinals’ present and future.
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“If you’ve been in this building and you’ve seen us play, when ‘1’ (Murray) goes, that’s what it looks like. There’s no question of that.”
Humphries, entering his eighth NFL season, has seen the good and the bad. He saw the greatness when Carson Palmer was their quarterback. He saw the struggles after Palmer got hurt and then retired.
The team believes in Murray because he gives the Cardinals “a chance.”
“You watch those games the year before he came,” Humphries said, in reference to the 2018 3-13 season when the Cardinals were the worst team in the NFL and had a historically bad offense. “His rookie year was rough as well, but we went into those games like ‘they’ve got to show us before we leave here that they’re better than us.’ We didn’t perceive it because we knew what we had in the backfield, we knew that with ‘1’ back there, we’ve got a chance.”
Humphries also dismissed the idea that Murray is lacking in command of the huddle or locker room.
“When he’s in there, he’s the guy,” Humphries said. “Everything that he puts on that film, there’s no question.”
He knows that both sides will get things done, Murray will be in the building with his teammates when he needs to be and will do great things on the field.
“I’ll say that again — if you think he’s not part of our future, you need to slow down on the drinking in the daytime.”
Kyler Murray wasn’t the only player to come to voluntary OTAs for the first time this week. So did Hollywood Brown and 3 starting linemen.
The biggest news coming out of OTAs for the Arizona Cardinals on Wednesday was the arrival of quarterback Kyler Murray to OTAs. It was a big deal, but he wasn’t the only player who had been absent from this voluntary part of offseason work.
Several other key players on offense arrived to the team’s Tempe headquarters to participate in OTAs for the first time. Those players included receiver Marquise Brown and three offensive line starters — D.J. Humphries, Justin Pugh and Kelvin Beachum.
“A lot of starters back,” head coach Kliff Kingsbury said after practice Wednesday. “I thought the work was good, spirited. It was nice.”
“I think having those types of veteran presence around in a time like this is definitely huge,” Kingsbury said. “All those guys are great leaders — the Pughs, the Beachums, the Humps, Kyler — that have been a part of this. It helped getting back to normalcy some. Definitely anytime you can get around those guys, I thin the younger players gravitate toward them and probably feel better about the whole situation.”
The Cardinals have two more practices of OTAs scheduled this week and then four next week before having three days of mandatory minicamp June 14-16.
Humphries is named an injury replacement for Dallas’ Tyron Smith. He is the first Cardinals tackle to make the Pro Bowl since Lomas Brown.
Arizona Cardinals left tackle D.J. Humphries is a Pro Bowler for the first time in his career. After getting selected as Pro Bowl alternate at tackle when the NFC and AFC rosters were first announced, he will take the trip and make the first appearance of his career.
The Cardinals announced he was named to the NFC Pro Bowl squad as an injury replacement for Dallas Cowboys tackle Tyron Smith.
With the announcement, he becomes the first Cardinals offensive lineman to make a Pro Bowl since guard Mike Iupati did in 2015 and first tackle since Lomas Brown was selected in 1996.
Humphries did not have his best season but arguably should have made the team last season.
He is one of five Cardinals who will represent the NFC. He joins quarterback Kyler Murray, running back James Conner, linebacker Chandler Jones and safety Budda Baker.
The game is this Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium.
With D.J. Humphries out this weekend on the COVID list, the Cardinals will either have Kelvin Beachum, Josh Jones or Josh Miles at left tackle.
The Arizona Cardinals have to make a late-week adjustment at left tackle in Week 17. Left tackle D.J. Humphries landed on the COVID list Thursday, meaning he will miss the game on Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys.
The Cardinals have options to work with at left tackle but head coach Kliff Kingsbury did not have a definitive answer as to what the plan was for left tackle.
They could go with right tackle Kelvin Beachum, who was basically exclusively a left tackle until last season when he signed with the team. They have backup Josh Miles and second-year pro Josh Jones, who played left tackle in college, was drafted to play right tackle and has seen time at guard this year.
“It’ll be a combination of one of those three guys, maybe multiple,” he said.
If Beachum is moved to left tackle, Jones likely would play right tackle. That would cause the most movement on the line.
If Jones or Miles start at left tackle, then only one position is changed, rather than two.
Of course, whoever fills in will have a challenge. The Cowboys have a fearsome trio of edge rushers this season with rookie Micah Parsons and veterans DeMarcus Lawrence and Randy Gregory.
Parsons has 13 sacks, Gregory has six and Lawrence has two.
