{"id":772204,"date":"2026-02-24T01:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/772204\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:20:40","slug":"arizona-cardinals-mentioned-as-favorites-for-free-agent-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/772204\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals mentioned as favorites for free agent quarterback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Are the Arizona Cardinals poised to make a big splash in free agency at the quarterback position?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tony Pauline is reporting the Arizona Cardinals are the team expected to sign Malik Willis in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This would be an interesting decision for Monti Ossenfort and company, but would also make sense as Mike LaFleur would likely have some insight into Willis from his brother Matt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The issue, or question becomes would you pay Malik Willis a contract in the range of two years and $60-70 million?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Willis in his last two years as the backup for the Green Bay Packers is 2-1 and thrown for 972 yards, six touchdowns and no interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It is an extremely small sample size, so we cannot compare it to the Seahawks signing of Sam Darnold, because Darnold had a full season of proving to be the guy for the Vikings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I think everyone would agree that getting Willis in a similar situation would make it easy, one-year $10 million, hell even $20 million for a year no one bats an eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But if the Cardinals and Dolphins are going to compete for the chance at Willis, how big are you willing to go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are the Arizona Cardinals poised to make a big splash in free agency at the quarterback position? Tony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,10166,14996,13241,2604,1327,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-772204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals-free-agency","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals-news","12":"tag-arizona-cardinals-rumors","13":"tag-arizonacardinals","14":"tag-cardinals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116122984331137959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772204","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=772204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}