March 23, 2026, 6:08 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> have been quiet at two noteworthy and important positions this offseason. One is at outside linebacker. The other is at cornerback.<\/p>\n However, at cornerback, the situation is much different.<\/p>\n What is the Cardinals’ plan at cornerback this offseason?<\/p>\n The Cardinals made two moves at cornerback. They didn’t release anyone. They have not re-signed Darren Hall. THey re-signed Star Thomas and redid Sean Murphy-Bunting’s contract, as he agreed to a pay cut so he wasn’t released.<\/p>\n So aside from Hall being still a free agent, there is nobody new.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n However, the Cardinals are sort of gaining two players, as Murphy-Bunting and Thomas both missed the entire 2025 season. Thomas and Murphy-Bunting both started 15 games for the Cardinals in 2024.<\/p>\n So they return to a group that includes 2024 second-round pick Max Melton, 2025 second-round pick Will Johnson and 2025 fifth-round pick Denzel Burke. Garrett Williams returns, but tore his Achilles late in the year and will likely miss some of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n So it appears that the plan for the Cardinals is to run it back in 2026, only with two starters returning from injury, and even without Williams, a group of Thomas, Murphy-Bunting, Johnson, Melton and Burke is a pretty solid group to work with. And we didn’t even mention Kei’Trel Clark, who seemingly finds a role every year.<\/p>\n Now, don’t count out drafting a cornerback. The Cardinals have selected seven in the last three drafts and four have been in the top 100.<\/p>\n So with players returning, it makes some sense why the Cardinals haven’t gone out an added anyone else.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> 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":"March 23, 2026, 6:08 p.m. MT The Arizona Cardinals have been quiet at two noteworthy and important positions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,95973,95974,95882,95890,114697,96062,102106,95897,100020,96008,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-830555","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-tagdarren-hall","20":"tag-taggarrett-williams","21":"tag-tagmax-melton","22":"tag-tagoverall-negative","23":"tag-tagsean-murphy-bunting","24":"tag-tagsmg-listicle","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116282575059337530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830555","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=830555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}