Updated March 6, 2026, 5:18 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
NFL free agency begins on Monday with the allowable negotiation period, known by many as the “legal tampering period”, and the new league year officially begins on March 11.<\/p>\n
The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> have series of needs to address in free agency, whether it is on offense, defense or special teams.<\/p>\n In one recent episode of the podcast<\/a>, cohost Seth Cox and I previewed free agency for the Cardinals on offense.<\/p>\n In the newest episode of the show<\/a>, we did the same, but with the defense and special teams.<\/p>\n We go over each position group \u2014 the defensive line, the outside linebackers, the inside linebackers, the cornerbacks, the safeties and the specialists \u2014 going over the Cardinals’ needs and who are some free agents to know.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>(1:00) Free agent defensive linemen(18:52) Free agent edge defenders and inside linebackers(31:11) Free agent defensive backs and specialists<\/p>\n Enjoy the show!<\/p>\n Enjoy the show with the embedded player above or by subscribing to the show on\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or your favorite podcast platform, so you never miss a show. Make sure as well to give it a five-star rating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated March 6, 2026, 5:18 p.m. MT NFL free agency begins on Monday with the allowable negotiation period,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,95973,95974,95882,95890,95896,95888,95895,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-797436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","16":"tag-sstsncardinals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagarizona-cardinals","19":"tag-tagnational-sports","20":"tag-tagnfl","21":"tag-tagnfl-hub","22":"tag-tagoverall-positive","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116185518029672223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797436","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=797436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}