July 18, 2026, 3:44 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> report 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 linebacker Mack Wilson.<\/p>\n Mack Wilson background, 2025 season<\/p>\n Wilson enters his eighth NFL season and third with the Cardinals. He entered the league in 2019 as a fifth-round draft pick by the Cleveland Browns<\/a> out of Alabama. He played three seasons for the Browns and two for the New England Patriots before signing a three-year contract in free agency in 2024.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n Last season, he replaced Kyzir White as the starting “Mike” linebacker and played in eight games before a rib injury at the end of the Cardinals’ Week 8 win over the Dallas Cowboys caused him to miss the final nine games of the season.<\/p>\n In eight games, he had 60 total tackles, three tackles for loss, a quarterback hit, an interception, six pass breakups and a forced fumble.<\/p>\n Mack Wilson contract details, salary cap hit<\/p>\n Wilson enters the final year of his three-year, $12.75 million contract. He will make nearly $3.4 million in salary in 2026 and count more than $4.7 million against the salary cap.<\/p>\n Roster outlook, questions he faces<\/p>\n Wilson is a lock to make the team and is going to be the team’s starting “Mike” linebacker. He is a leader in the locker room and trusted by defensive coordinator Nick Rallis.<\/p>\n Will he be able to lead a better defense? Will he get a contract extension before he becomes a free agent next year?<\/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 18, 2026, 3:44 p.m. MT The Arizona Cardinals report to training camp on July 22 and begin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,119454,95973,95974,95882,95890,95957,95896,95888,95895,95899,96008,95883,95881],"class_list":["post-949639","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-tagcleveland-browns","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\/116945922571033418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949639","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=949639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}