We will preview every player on the Cardinals roster leading up to training camp. This is about TE Oscar Cardenas.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Arizona Cardinals<\/a>\u00a0report 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n This focuses on tight end Oscar Cardenas.<\/p>\n Oscar Cardenas background, 2024 season<\/p>\n Cardenas is an undrafted rookie the Cardinals<\/a> signed following the 2025 NFL draft. He spent six seasons at UTSA. He played in 65 games, starting 40 and finished as the school’s all-time leader among tight ends in catches (65), receiving yards (1,138) and receiving touchdowns (9). He was a three-time all-conference selection.<\/p>\n In 2024, he was limited to eight games with an injury and finished the season with 13 catches for 141 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n Oscar Cardenas 2025 contract details, cap hit<\/p>\n Cardenas signed a three-year deal with the Cardinals worth a little less than $3 million. He received a $10,000 signing bonus. He will make $840,000 in 2025, $50,000 of which is guaranteed.<\/p>\n Questions he faces, roster outlook<\/p>\n Cardenas faces the same question all rookies do, dealing with the adjustment from college to the pro game, only as an undrafted player, he doesn’t have the team investment behind him.<\/p>\n He is longshot for the roster and the practice squad isn’t even a lock.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We will preview every player on the Cardinals roster leading up to training camp. This is about TE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[247,265,375,390,2604,1327,7,20842,1184,248,267,246,88,6,35196,245,264,1602,2517,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-211301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals","12":"tag-arizonacardinals","13":"tag-cardinals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-hub","16":"tag-listicle","17":"tag-national","18":"tag-national-sports","19":"tag-neutral","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-nfl-hub","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-neutral","25":"tag-smg","26":"tag-smg-listicle","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114862337933931840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}