The Cardinals signed wide receiver Simi Fehoko to a one-year deal, the team announced Friday.
Fehoko, 27, is a four-year veteran who has played 24 games with two starts in his career. He has 10 receptions for 139 yards and a touchdown.
He appeared in a career-high eight games with two starts last season with the Chargers and had six receptions for 106 yards. Fehoko missed part of last season with an elbow injury that landed him on injured reserve.
Fehoko entered the league as a fifth-round selection of the Cowboys in 2021 and spent his first two seasons in Dallas. He played the past two seasons with the Chargers and appeared in 14 games with seven receptions for 115 yards and one touchdown in addition to three special teams tackles.
The Cardinals also made official the signing of defensive lineman Dalvin Tomlinson to a two-year deal.
When word emerged on Thursday that the legal dispute between Fanatics and Cardinals receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. has been resolved, it was reported that his jerseys would be available for purchase “pretty soon.”
Pretty soon, as it turns out, is currently.
Via Darren Urban of the Cardinals’ official website, Harrison jerseys can be purchased now on the Cardinals’ official website. Here’s the link to the team shop confirming it.
Through yesterday, Harrison jerseys weren’t available. It was impossible to even personalize a jersey with Harrison’s name. (It still is; the code will surely change, sooner or later.)
Jerseys also will be available at the team’s shop at its stadium as of Saturday.
Josh Sweat experienced a lot of team success over seven years with the Eagles, but the spotlight was rarely on him over the course of that run.
His final game was a notable exception. Sweat’s 2.5 sacks of Patrick Mahomes helped propel the Eagles to a win in Super Bowl LIX and it made him a hot commodity on the free agent market this week.
Sweat signed a four-year contract with the Cardinals that reunites him with former Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon and gives the edge rusher a chance to be the top dog for the first time in his career. Sweat said that’s something that appealed to him during a Thursday press conference.
“I want to be seen as the guy who can make a difference,” Sweat said, via the team’s website. “I really haven’t had, I won’t say the opportunity, but we’ve been very talented over [in Philly]. Here I can definitely show, with an ascending team, how I’m helping. I’m excited, dog.”
Sweat won’t have the same supporting cast around him in Arizona and that will make for even bigger accolades if he can help the Cardinals to the same kind of success he experienced in Philadelphia.
Free agent cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. took a trip to Arizona on Thursday.
The Cardinals hosted Samuel on a visit, according to Field Yates of ESPN.
Samuel has spent his entire career with the Chargers, who selected him in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft. When healthy he has been a starter, but last year he played in only four games because of a shoulder injury. That shoulder may be why the interest in him hasn’t been as strong as expected since free agency started this week.
Samuel is the No. 32 player on our list of the Top 100 free agents, and the fourth-best player who is still available as of Friday morning.
Nearly a year after he was drafted by the Cardinals, receiver Marvin Harrison Jr.'s jersey will finally be available for purchase.
Via Josh (not John) Weinfuss of ESPN.com, the legal dispute between Harrison and Fanatics has been resolved. Terms of the settlement weren’t released.
Here’s an important one — Weinfuss reports that Harrison jerseys will be available “pretty soon.”
“The dispute between Fanatics and Marvin Harrison Jr. has been resolved,” a Fanatics spokesperson told Weinfuss. “The parties are pleased to have resolved this matter, and looking forward to a productive working relationship going forward.”
The fight traced to a three-year, $1.05 million term sheet that Harrison allegedly signed with Fanatics while in college at Ohio State. Harrison refused to allow Fanatics to produce and sell his jerseys, apparently as leverage to avoid or redo the existing deal.
Fanatics sued Harrison for breach of contract in May 2024. The litigation included a claim that Marvin Harrison Sr., not Marvin Harrison Jr., had signed the term sheet. That resulted in Fanatics adding Harrison Sr. to the lawsuit.
Regardless, it’s now over. Whatever the other terms might or might not be, Harrison jerseys (the name is still blocked as a personalized option on Cardinals jerseys) will finally be available.
Free agent nose tackle Naquan Jones has agreed to a one-year deal with the Chargers, his agent, Mike McCartney, announced on social media.
Jones, 27, spent the past season and a half in Arizona.
In 2024, Jones played 12 games with no starts and totaled a career-high three sacks, 27 tackles, four quarterback hits and two passes defensed. He played 260 defensive snaps and 55 on special teams.
Jones began his NFL career in Tennessee, spending 2 1/2 seasons with the Titans before joining the Cardinals. He started last season on the Dolphins’ practice squad before a return to Arizona.
In four seasons, Jones has recorded 89 tackles, 6.5 sacks, nine quarterback hits and 11 tackles for loss. He has appeared in 48 games with eight starts.
The Eagles had a few weeks to celebrate their Super Bowl win before the realities of life in the NFL forced them to turn the page.
Several contributors from the team have moved on as free agents this week, including edge rusher Josh Sweat. Sweat parleyed his dominant performance against the Chiefs into a lucrative contract with the Cardinals and his departure means that the Eagles will be looking for more out of 2024 third-round pick Jalyx Hunt in his second season.
Hunt told Olivia Reiner of the Philadelphia Inquirer that saying goodbye to Sweat and other teammates is “urting my heart”. Hunt, who had 1.5 sacks in the regular season and 1.5 sacks in the playoffs, also said that he will “work my butt off” to give the team even more than they got from Sweat.
“That’s the OG, man,” Hunt said. “Josh Sweat, he’s out of here. I told him, ‘It’s up,’ though, because now we’re in direct competition. Because before, I’m learning from you, everything. But now I’ve got to outrush him and everything like that.”
The Eagles have steadily added to their offensive and defensive fronts over the years and that strategy has been hailed as a major driver of their success. If Hunt can follow in Sweat’s footsteps, it will help their chances of continuing on the path that brought them to glory in February.
The Cardinals traded for linebacker Baron Browning during the 2024 season and Browning said he didn’t feel totally comfortable with the team until the final weeks of the year.
Browning will have more time to make himself at home in Arizona. Browning signed a two-year deal with the Cardinals before hitting the market as a free agent and he said at a Wednesday press conference that he’s excited about “being able to build a chemistry with my teammates and get comfortable in the system.”
Browning also said that he believes “in what we’re trying to build here” and that the Cardinals are the best fit for him, which was a point he reinforced by referencing another kind of relationship.
“If you got a girlfriend who is a 10, why play around?” Browning said, via the team’s website.
The Cardinals went from 4-13 in head coach Jonathan Gannon’s first season to 8-9 in 2024. The hope is that Browning will be part of a continued rise that puts the Cardinals in the playoffs this time around.
The Cardinals have agreed to terms with defensive tackle Dalvin Tomlinson, his agency announced Wednesday. He will sign a two-year, $29 million deal with $16 million guaranteed, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports.
The Browns designed Tomlinson as a post-June 1 release, with his departure saving the team $6.41 million against its 2025 salary cap.
Tomlinson, 31, spent two seasons with Cleveland and started 16 games both seasons. In 2024, he finished with three sacks, six tackles for loss and 18 quarterback hits.
A second-round pick of the Giants in 2017, Tomlinson has started 125 games for the Giants, Vikings and Browns.
He has totaled 19 career sacks with 36 tackles for loss and 67 quarterback hits.
The Cardinals are bringing back defensive lineman L.J. Collier on a one-year deal, the team announced Wednesday.
Collier’s return follows Roy Lopez leaving for the Lions and Khyiris Tonga going to the Patriots.
Collier, 29, has spent the past two seasons in Arizona.
He set career highs in games played (17) and sacks (3.5) a season ago in coordinator Nick Rallis’ defensive line rotation. Collier also had six quarterback hits, four tackles for loss, two pass deflections and a fumble recovery.
The Seahawks made Collier the 29th overall pick in 2019, and he appeared in 45 of a possible 66 games, starting 16. Collier signed with the Cardinals in 2023 but had a season-ending injury in his debut with the team.
In 2024, he played all 17 games, only the second time in his career he has appeared in every game.
