Jacoby Brissett‘s holdout is reportedly over.
The Arizona Cardinals quarterback will report for the team’s mandatory minicamp this week, according to ESPN’s Josh Weinfuss and Jeremy Fowler. That came after Brissett had held out for all of the team’s previous offseason work while angling for a new contract.
Brissett missed the first and second phases of the team’s offseason program, and he skipped all three of its OTAs, too. If Brissett didn’t show up to mandatory minicamp this week, he was at risk of being fined a total of $107,911.
Brissett threw for a career-high 3,366 yards with 23 touchdowns and eight interceptions last season, his 10th in the league. He started 12 games for the Cardinals, replacing an injured Kyler Murray. The team went 3-14, and missed the playoffs for the fourth straight season.
The Cardinals have since split with Murray, who signed a one-year deal with the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings will reportedly pay Murray at the veteran minimum, while the Cardinals will pay the bulk of Murray’s $36.8 million salary next season.
After his best season to date, Brissett reportedly wants to be paid like a true starting quarterback in the league. He is currently set to make $4.88 million in base salary next season with $1.5 million guaranteed. Brissett will enter workouts as the team’s presumed starter, joining Gardner Minshew, Kedon Slovis and Carson Beck, whom the team selected in the third round of the NFL Draft out of Miami. The Cardinals signed Minshew in free agency in March, and gave him just more than $5 million guaranteed.
It’s unclear when, or if, the two sides will come to a new deal before the new season, though it’s unlikely to get done before workouts start Tuesday. The two sides were “significantly” far apart in negotiations last month, according to ESPN, but it’s unclear how far things went.
Though he’ll have to keep waiting for a new deal, Brissett is getting back to work in Arizona.
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