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Cardinals tendered qualifying offer to DL Jonathan Ledbetter

The exclusive rights free agent will be back with the Cardinals. He just needs to sign his tender.

The Arizona Cardinals entered the new league year with three exclusive rights free agents. These are players who have not yet had three credited seasons and have not reached where teams still hold their playing rights.

Wide receiver Greg Dortch was one. He already re-signed his one-year qualifying tender.

Defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter is another.

He has not re-signed yet, but according to the official team site’s free agent tracker, it is only a matter of time.

The team tendered him a qualifying offer.

In the case of exclusive rights free agents, if a team extends a qualifying tender, the player can choose to sign it and remain with the team or not play in the NFL.

When he signs the tender, he will be scheduled to make $870,000.

Last season, in 14 games, he had 22 tackles, a sack, two tackles for loss and two quarterback hits in 275 defensive snaps.

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Cardinals place S Chris Banjo, DL Jonathan Ledbetter on IR

The Cardinals free up a pair of roster spots before the game on Sunday.

The Arizona Cardinals announced a pair of roster moves Friday, sending two injured players to injured reserve, freeing up roster spots for the finale against the San Francisco 49ers Sunday.

They placed safety Chris Banjo and defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter on IR.

Banjo had missed practice all week with a concussion and Ledbetter suffered a knee injury on Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons.

This will allow the Cardinals to sign two players from the practice squad to the active roster in addition to their two standard elevations.

As running back James Conner was ruled out of the game on Sunday, we can expect a running back to be signed or elevated.

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Cardinals sign DL Jonathan Ledbetter to ‘futures’ deal

Ledbetter played in one game and was on the practice squad all season.

The Arizona Cardinals have added another player to their offseason roster for 2022. They did not announce the roster move on Wednesday, but the NFL transaction report showed they signed defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter to a “futures” contract for 2022.

Ledbetter had spent time on the Cardinals’ practice squad in 2021.

The 6-4, 280-lb defensive lineman was signed to the practice squad in September and was elevated to play in one game last season. It was against the Cleveland Browns when Corey Peters was placed on the COVID list the morning of the game. He played 10 defensive snaps that game and then spent the rest of the season on the practice squad.

Ledbetter entered the league in 2019 as an undrafted rookie out of Georgia. His only other NFL game was one start in 2019 for the Miami Dolphins. He had four tackles and half a sack in that game.

Arizona now has 17 players signed to “futures” contracts this offseason.

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Former Georgia Bulldogs DL named to Arizona practice squad

Former Georgia Bulldogs defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter has been named to the Arizona Cardinals practice squad.

Former Georgia Bulldogs defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter has been named to the Arizona Cardinals practice squad.

Ledbetter began his NFL career with the Miami Dolphins. He signed with Miami as an undrafted free agent and made his first and only NFL appearance in 2019. The former UGA defensive end played in one game in 2019 before being placed on injured reserve. Ledbetter impressed with four total tackles and a half sack in his only career appearance.

Ledbetter missed the 2020 season with an injury.

The Dolphins cut Ledbetter on Aug. 31. Fortunately, Ledbetter has found a new NFL home and will have some great mentors in Arizona. The Cardinals have NFL veterans like Chandler Jones and J.J. Watt along the defensive front. Perhaps Jonathan Ledbetter can learn a thing or two from them.

Georgia Bulldogs defensive end Jonathan Ledbetter played in a lot of big games over his career at Georgia. Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports

Jonathan Ledbetter, who is from Tucker, Georgia, recorded 122 total tackles over his four season career (2015-2018) with the Georgia Bulldogs. Ledbetter is more of a run-stopper, but he did have 4.5 sacks in his career with UGA.

Jonathan Ledbetter fits well into Arizona’s defense as a 3-4 defensive end.

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Dolphins waive defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter

Dolphins waive defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter

The Miami Dolphins’ roster should be considered generally stable ahead of tomorrow’s 2020 NFL Draft. The team has room to hold all of their NFL Draft selections on the roster, even if they manage to make picks with all 14 selections. But the team has made one last transaction ahead of Thursday night — the team announced on Tuesday evening that they had waived defensive end Jonathan Ledbetter with a non-football injury designation.

The loss of Ledbetter off the roster is certainly eased by the team’s additions of Emmanuel Ogbah and Shaq Lawson in free agency — both players are viable “hand in the dirt” defenders who play a stout brand of football against the run and offer powerful pass rushes to compliment more speedy defenders coming off the outside. Ledbetter, an undrafted free agent out of Georgia in 2019, played in one contest for the Dolphins this past season — logging 61 total snaps with the team in Miami’s Week 1 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.

The writing for Ledbetter was unfortunately on the wall all season, as the rookie never got back into the action despite a carousel of defensive linemen being active and inactive on a week to week basis.

Could Ledbetter’s departure signify the Dolphins’ intent to add more talent to the defensive line in this year’s NFL Draft? Possibly. Between his departure and the earlier cut of DL Gerald Willis this month the Dolphins have certainly opened up some breathing room on the roster to accommodate for some fresh talent up front. The only question now is “how high could Miami draft defensive line talent”?

As is the case with most things in the NFL Draft, it’s wise to never say never. Miami may find a value that they absolutely love early on in this year’s draft. If that’s the case, Miami could be adding talent up front earlier than we might expect.