{"id":217269,"date":"2025-03-10T15:13:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=217269"},"modified":"2025-03-10T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:13:53","slug":"breaking-pro-bowl-pass-rusher-signs-contract-with-arizona-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/10\/breaking-pro-bowl-pass-rusher-signs-contract-with-arizona-cardinals\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Pro Bowl Pass Rusher Signs Contract With Arizona Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-year veteran edge defender Josh Sweat signed a new contract with the Arizona Cardinals. Sweat, a former fourth-round pick, spent the entirety of his professional career with the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:mbr4badgf6yu56mquzackzew\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lk2azva3dc2o\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreidnruzmm5fiw6qee2nqt26e4gs7sdnhqzlah2ogz6o7y5ldrftgti\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\">\n<p lang=\"en\">BREAKING NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Schefter: EDGE Josh Sweat to sign a 4-year, $76.4M deal with the Cardinals. $41M guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL NEWS (<a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:mbr4badgf6yu56mquzackzew?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@fantasynflnews.bsky.social<\/a>) <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:mbr4badgf6yu56mquzackzew\/post\/3lk2azva3dc2o?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Josh Sweat, Arizona Cardinals, Agree to Contract<\/h2>\n<p>The Philadelphia Eagles had one of the league&#8217;s top front sevens in football, and Josh Sweat played a large role in that success. Starting and appearing in 16 games, the veteran finished the season with eight sacks, 41 tackles, nine tackles-for-loss, 15 quarterback hits, and a 70.0 PFF grade, the 36th-best mark out of 119 eligible players. With his help, the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/gametracker\/boxscore\/NFL_20250209_KC@PHI\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eagles won the Super Bowl<\/a>, beating the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/chiefs\/\" target=\"_self\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> by a final score of 40-22.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Sweat originally entered the league as a fourth-round pick in the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">NFL Draft<\/a>. Selected by the Philadelphia Eagles, the Florida State product hardly saw the field as a rookie. Appearing in nine games without making a start, the rookie finished his inaugural season with just one tackle, one quarterback hit, and no sacks as Philadelphia made the postseason but lost to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/saints\" target=\"_self\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> in the divisional round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his slow start, Sweat earned a larger role in 2018. Playing situationally, the edge defender appeared in all 16 games without making a start while recording four sacks, 21 tackles, seven tackles-for-loss, and 10 quarterback hits. Once again, the Eagles made the playoffs but failed to go on a deep postseason run.<\/p>\n<p>Sweat remained a situational player in 2020 but finally broke out in 2021. Starting in 13 games, the Florida State product recorded 7.5 sacks, 45 tackles, seven tackles-for-loss, 13 quarterback hits, and a 76.1 PFF grade while making the first Pro Bowl of his career. He proved this wasn&#8217;t a one-year fluke in 2022 when he recorded 11 sacks, 48 tackles, 15 tackles-for-loss, 23 quarterback hits, and an 83.8 PFF grade. Despite making improvements across the board, he did not make the Pro Bowl for this strong campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Since signing his rookie contract, Josh Sweat has recorded 43 sacks, 237 tackles, 54 tackles-for-loss, and 97 quarterback hits.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Kirby Lee &#8211; Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran edge rusher Josh Sweat has signed a new contract after helping the Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":217270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,21],"tags":[7801,20517,246,7393],"class_list":["post-217269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-cardinals","category-eagles","tag-arizona-cardinals-news","tag-josh-sweat","tag-nfl-news","tag-philadelphia-eagles-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221803,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217269\/revisions\/221803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}