We will preview every player on the Cardinals roster leading up to training camp. This is about OL Kelvin Beachum.
The Arizona Cardinals report to training camp on July 22 and begin the process of preparing for the regular season, forming the roster and determining starting jobs and roles on the team.
Leading up to the start of camp, we will take a look at every player on the offseason roster, their background, their contract, their play in 2024, questions they face and their roster outlook.
Next up is offensive lineman Kelvin Beachum.
Kelvin Beachum background, 2024 season
Beachum, now 36 years old, enters his 14th NFL season and his sixth with the Cardinals.
He was drafted in the seventh round in 2012 by the Pittsburgh Steelers and has started 161 games in his career. He has been a starter for almost his entire career, appearing in 189 total games. After four years with the Steelers, a season with the Jacksonville Jaguars and three with the New York Jets, he signed a one-year contract with the Cardinals in 2020. Almost exclusively a left tackle for the first eight years of his career, he became the Cardinals’ starting right tackle.
After that first season, he re-signed for two seasons and was their starting right tackle for another two seasons.
In 2023, he signed a two-year deal again to return but moved into a backup role. He started the final two games of the year at left tackle after D.J. Humphries tore his ACL.
In 2024, after Paris Johnson, who replaced Beachum as the starting right tackle in 2023, moved to the left side, Jonah Williams was signed to start, but Beachum ended up starting 12 games between left tackle and right tackle as Williams missed 11 games with a knee injury and Johnson missed the final three, also injuring his knee.
Kelvin Beachum 2025 contract details, cap hit
Beachum re-signed for the 2025 season, a one-year deal worth $4 million. He received a $1.5 million signing bonus and will earn a guaranteed $1.99 million in salary and up to $510,000 in per-game roster bonuses. His will count nearly $4 million against the cap.
Questions he faces, roster outlook
Beachum is ageless. He has no intention of stepping away from the game yet and retiring, and he believes he can still play. Can he continue to defy Father Time? Ideally, though, he won’t have to have significant playing time because that would mean Johnson and Williams stay healthy.
But he is a lock to make the roster and is locked in as the backup swing tackle, the first to fill in for either Williams or Johnson.
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