With OL Valentin Senn on IR, the Cardinals can’t add another player unless they add another international player.
Cardinals tryouts today: LB Kenneth Odumegwu and T Max Pircher. Both have had previous international exemptions.
— Howard Balzer (@HBalzer721) August 4, 2025
By placing rookie offensive lineman Valentin Senn on injured reserve with a neck injury over the weekend, the Arizona Cardinals lost the roster exemption they had for carrying a designated international player. Without adding another international player, they cannot carry a 91st player on the offseason roster or a 17th player on the practice squad.
They brought in a pair of international players for a tryout, according to the league transaction report on Monday.
Odumegwu is Nigerian and has spent time with the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks.
He was signed originally by Green Bay last year in January but was released in August. The Seahawks signed him to their practice squad in September, where he stayed all season. He was signed to a futures deal in 2025 but waived in April.
He is 6-foot-6 and 259 pounds. He did not play college ball.
Pircher, listed at 6-foot-7 and 325 pounds, is from Italy.
He has been with a few teams. He spent the 2022 season on the practice squad of the LA Rams. In 2023, he was on the practice squad of the Detroit Lions. In 2024, after signing in the offseason with the Seahawks, he was released after final cuts and did not join another team until the Washington Commanders signed him to the practice squad in January.
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