The Cardinals enter 2026 training camp with a projected depth chart that starts with a name, an asterisk and a standoff: Jacoby Brissett was named the starting quarterback after replacing Kyler Murray last season, but he’s seeking a new contract and skipped voluntary workouts — with Gardner Minshew II and third-round rookie Carson Beck behind him. The projection below reflects beat and league reporting entering camp; the first official depth chart arrives before the August 6 Hall of Fame Game, and this page updates when it does.
The certainty is at the skill spots. Trey McBride is the offense’s anchor coming off a First-Team All-Pro season in which his 126 receptions set the NFL’s single-season tight end record; Marvin Harrison Jr. enters a pivotal third year; and the backfield got the offseason’s biggest investment — No. 3 overall pick Jeremiyah Love atop a room that also holds free-agent signing Tyler Allgeier, veteran James Conner and Trey Benson. New coach Mike LaFleur’s outside-zone scheme will feed that group; the offensive line assembling in front of it, and a defensive front still searching for a lead rusher, are the chart’s open construction zones.
Cardinals Training Camp 2026
Projected Depth Chart Entering Camp
The starters, the logjams and the open jobs — updated when the official chart drops
BrissettNamed QB1
LoveRB1 Pedigree
126McBride Record
TBDOfficial Chart
Position by Position
Projection per beat and league reporting; official team depth chart to come.
| Position |
Projected Starter |
Behind Them |
The Situation |
| QB |
Jacoby Brissett |
Gardner Minshew II, Carson Beck (R), Kedon Slovis |
Brissett was named the starter — but is in a contract standoff |
| RB |
Jeremiyah Love (R) |
Tyler Allgeier, James Conner, Trey Benson, Bam Knight |
The No. 3 pick headlines the league’s most crowded backfield |
| WR |
Marvin Harrison Jr. |
Michael Wilson, Kendrick Bourne, Xavier Weaver, Devin Duvernay |
Wilson surged late in 2025; Bourne arrived in free agency |
| TE |
Trey McBride |
Tip Reiman, Elijah Higgins |
First-team All-Pro; his 126 catches set the single-season TE record |
| OL |
Under construction |
Rookies Jayden Williams (T), Chase Bisontis (G), Ka’ena De Cambra (G) in the mix |
The unit LaFleur’s outside-zone scheme lives or dies on |
| Secondary |
Budda Baker (S) anchors |
A cornerback room beat writers call the roster’s deepest group |
The defense’s established strength |
| Front seven |
The open question |
No established No. 1 pass rusher entering camp |
Arizona is ‘waiting for someone to emerge up front’ |
The Brissett Clock
Training camp is the soft deadline on the contract standoff: report and the job is his to lose; extend the holdout and the door opens for Minshew’s experience or Beck’s upside. No depth chart line in Arizona matters more.
Five Backs, Three Jobs
Love, Allgeier (signed expecting to start), Conner (contract reworked), Benson and Knight cannot all make this roster comfortably — the position Arizona invested most in is also its most oversubscribed, and camp sorts it.
Built Back-to-Front
The defense’s spine is settled — eight-time Pro Bowler Budda Baker and a cornerback room considered the roster’s deepest — while the line in front remains the roster’s biggest unknown. Expect the first official chart to say ‘OR’ a lot up front.
The Bottom Line
A named starter in a standoff, a record-setting tight end, the league’s most crowded backfield and two units still under construction — that’s the chart LaFleur inherits Wednesday. The fights inside it are broken out in position battles to watch, and the final math in the 53-man roster projection.
