{"id":515615,"date":"2026-07-26T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=515615"},"modified":"2026-07-26T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:02:17","slug":"cardinals-qb-brissett-secures-almost-16-million-dollars-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cardinals-qb-brissett-secures-almost-16-million-dollars-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals QB Brissett secures almost 16 million dollars for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Cardinals and QB Jacoby Brissett have reached an agreement on a reworked deal that will pay him 15.5 million dollars guaranteed in the current campaign, with the chance to make over 20 million dollars with incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Jacoby didn\u2019t get any new years on his contract and is scheduled to be an unrestricted free agent after the campaign. The quarterback had never set out to add more seasons to the 2-year deal he inked in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really positive. I\u2019m happy for Brissett. Happy for our organization. That\u2019s productive. For it to be finished by now, it\u2019s very positive,\u201d Arizona manager Mike LaFleur shared.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals head coach revealed Jacoby will start taking reps with the 1<sup>st<\/sup>-team offense in 2 days, when the franchise returns from its day off and begins its 2<sup>nd<\/sup> block of practice camp.<\/p>\n<p>Mike wouldn\u2019t commit to Jacoby starting in the opener when Arizona will face the Chargers in California, just that Brissett will start taking 1<sup>st<\/sup>-team reps.<\/p>\n<p>Jacoby was in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> year of a 2-year contract that was scheduled to pay him below 5 million dollars, with just 1.5 million of them guaranteed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/AZCardinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#AZCardinals<\/a> and veteran QB Jacoby Brissett have reached a deal to increase his compensation for 2026, as its new one year worth $15.5M with a chance to get $21M. <\/p>\n<p>AZ\u2019s starter is now locked, already having begun practicing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LwnQqqupIX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LwnQqqupIX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2081449549621518734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Cardinals and QB Jacoby Brissett have reached an agreement on a reworked deal that will pay him 15.5 million dollars guaranteed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":515616,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17485,27127],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[19031,27128],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The quarterback guaranteed 15.5 million dollars in a reworked contract.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515617,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515615\/revisions\/515617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515615"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=515615"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=515615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}