July 4, 2026, 4:58 p.m. MT<\/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 2025, questions they face and their roster outlook.<\/p>\n Here is running back James Conner.<\/p>\n James Conner background, 2025 season<\/p>\n Conner enters his 10th NFL season and his sixth with the Cardinals<\/a>. After two consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons, setting career highs each year, he suffered a season-ending foot\/ankle injury in Week 3. He rushed for 95 yards and a touchdown in 32 attempts before his season ended.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>James Conner contract details, cap hit<\/p>\n Entering the final year of his three-year contract, he redid his deal to take a pay cut. He will make a fully guaranteed $2.355 million in salary, with a cap hit of more than $4.8 million.<\/p>\n Questions he faces, 2026 roster outlook<\/p>\n As one of the Cardinals’ most productive running backs in their history, he faces a new role. Tyler Allgeier and No. 3 overall pick Jeremiyah Love are ahead of him on the depth chart, but the Cardinals clearly wanted to keep him, as they redid his deal with a fully guaranteed salary. How much will he play this season?<\/p>\n Will he be traded to another team where he could play more? He is their most tradeable asset in the running back room.<\/p>\n If he is not traded, he is a lock for the roster, although he is a candidate to trade. It will be interesting to see what his role will be if he is on the final roster.<\/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 onSpotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 4, 2026, 4:58 p.m. MT The\u00a0Arizona Cardinals\u00a0report to training camp on July 22 and begin the process…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,119454,95973,95974,95882,95890,101172,95896,95888,95895,95899,96008,95883,95881],"class_list":["post-937103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-cardinals","tag-accessfree","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-arizonacardinals","tag-cardinals","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sourcecards-wire","tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","tag-sstsncardinals","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagarizona-cardinals","tag-tagjames-conner","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsmg-listicle","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116866013222502487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937103","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=937103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}