{"id":814727,"date":"2026-03-16T04:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/814727\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:25:19","slug":"elijah-wilkinson-salary-contract-details-cap-hit-with-arizona-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/814727\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Wilkinson salary, contract details, cap hit with Arizona Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elijah Wilkinson won\u2019t be handed the starting job at right tackle for the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> this season, but it\u2019s fair to say he\u2019s the very early leader in the clubhouse.<\/p>\n

Wilkinson, who played every snap (1,096) in that spot for the Falcons last season, signed a two-year contract worth $6.25 million during the first week of the league year.<\/p>\n

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Christian Jones, a fifth-round pick in 2024, shows promise, but he hasn\u2019t been able to stay healthy during his first two seasons in Arizona.<\/p>\n

There has been no word yet on whether Kelvin Beachum will continue his career and whether the Cardinals want him back. Last year, he didn\u2019t sign until April 3.<\/p>\n

Between now and the draft, there will surely be endless words about the Cardinals selecting a tackle with the third overall choice in the third round or in subsequent rounds.<\/p>\n

We have the details for Wilkinson’s contract.<\/p>\n

Elijah Wilkinson contract details<\/p>\n

As for Wilkinson, his contract has $3.08 million guaranteed, which includes a $1.5 million signing bonus and his $1.58 million base salary this year. Other compensation in 2026 are $25,000 per-game roster bonuses for a max total of $425,000 and a $100,000 offseason workout bonus. The 2027 base salary is $2.12 million.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s salary-cap charge is $2.855 million with $$3.395 million in 2027.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: Cardinals OL Elijah Wilkinson salary, contract details, cap hit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elijah Wilkinson won\u2019t be handed the starting job at right tackle for the Arizona Cardinals this season, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,15424,11423,7,10931,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-814727","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-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-christian-jones","13":"tag-elijah-wilkinson","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-kelvin-beachum","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814727","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=814727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}