Jacoby Brissett ends Cardinals holdout ahead of mandatory minicamp this week

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The Arizona Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett plans to attend the team’s mandatory minicamp this week, per ESPN’s Josh Weinfuss and Jeremy Fowler, ending an absence that covered every phase of Arizona’s voluntary offseason program.

The contract dispute that led to the holdout remains unresolved.

Brissett skipped Arizona’s first and second offseason phases and all three weeks of OTAs while pushing for a reworked deal ahead of the final year of his contract. His current deal pays him $4.88 million in base salary with just $1.5 million guaranteed.

Brissett will turn 34 in September and wants compensation reflecting his role as a starting quarterback.

The financial stakes around Monday’s decision were concrete. Missing all three days of mandatory minicamp would have cost Brissett $107,911 in fines, money that cannot be waived by the team under the NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, so reporting protects his earnings while keeping the contract conversation open.

Why the leverage math was always going to push Brissett toward showing up

Two weeks ago ESPN reported the two sides were “significantly” far apart in negotiations. Cardinals head coach Mike LaFleur said as recently as last week that talks were in the same place they had been for weeks.

Brissett’s case is built on his 2025 production.

After replacing an injured Kyler Murray, he threw for a career-high 3,366 yards and 23 touchdowns against eight interceptions across 12 starts, helping Michael Wilson post his first 1,000-yard season and elevating Trey McBride into the top tier of tight ends nationally.

The team went 1-11 in his starts, but the production was there.

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