Quarterback · Arizona Cardinals

Jacoby Brissett

No. 7 · 11th season

Brissett is the favorite — now comes the hard part

He's the frontrunner. He's also in a negotiation. Those two things may not both be true for long.

Jacoby Brissett has spent his career being the guy a team turns to when things get complicated — the steady hand, the bridge, the one who keeps the lights on. Now the Arizona Cardinals are looking at him as their Week 1 starting quarterback for 2026, and for the first time in a while, the job is genuinely his to take.

Except contract demands are sitting in the middle of it. The Cardinals see a starter in Brissett; whether they're willing to pay like it is a different question. That gap — between being wanted and being compensated like it — is where careers either get their moment or quietly move on.

Brissett has been here before in different forms: close but contingent, valued but not quite locked in. What changes now is that the door is open wider than it's been in years. Whether he walks through it may depend less on what he does on the field and more on what happens in a conference room.

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