It was early on March 10, the first day of the legal negotiating period for unrestricted free agents, that reports came out that the Arizona Cardinals had reached agreement to re-sign Kelvin Beachum to a one-year contract.
Probably due to be being busy with family activities as well as his devotion to off-field endeavors, it took 24 days for the veteran tackle to sign the contract at the team facility in Tempe with his family looking on.
Year 14. Nothing but God and the support of my family who I’m honored to share these moments with.
— Kelvin Beachum Jr (@KelvinBeachumJr) April 4, 2025
Filled with gratitude for my @NFL journey and feel very blessed to continue the ride. Cardinals fans, let’s run it back!! #TheJourneyContinues#TheProcess#InTheTrenchespic.twitter.com/g3vt54UuxJ
Since being signed as a free agent in July, 2020, Beachum has played 75 games for the Cardinals with 62 starts and has been on the field for 4,211 offensive snaps and 248 on special teams.
Last season, he started 12 of the 16 games he played, mostly at right tackle because of injuries suffered by Jonah Williams.
The ultimate team player and reliable producer, Beachum will be 36 on June 8 and is entering his 14th NFL season. When asked as the 2024 season was ending if he planned to continue playing, Beachum said he hoped to be back with the Cardinals and had the support of his family.
“We’ll see what happens,” he said.
What happened was signing a contract worth $4 million with $3.49 guaranteed. The latter includes a $1.5 million signing bonus and guaranteed base salary of $1.99 million.
The remaining $510,000 is the max that can be earned in $30,000 per-game roster bonuses. The salary-cap charge is $3.97 million because $30,000 of the roster bonuses don’t count against the cap this year because he missed one game last season.
The 2-year contract he signed in 2023 after general manager Monti Ossenfort and head coach Jonathan Gannon were hired was worth $5.15 million with $3.26 million guaranteed and included a $2.095 million signing bonus.
For the 15 signed players with published contract details (Beachum, Zay Jones, Royce Newman, Zay Jones, Simi Fehoko, Jacoby Brissett, Dalvin Tomlinson, Josh Sweat, Baron Browning, Mykal Walker, L.J. Collier, Evan Brown, Akeem Davis-Gaither, Joey Blount, Aaron Brewer and Travis Vokolek) plus the 1-year restricted free-agent tender for Greg Dortch, the total cap hit this year is $55.445 million.
We are still without official figures for the new contract for tight end Trey McBride as well as free-agent additions Calais Campbell and Jake Curhan.
Prior to signing his new contract, McBride was scheduled to be paid a $5.346 million salary this year and have a cap hit of $5.786 million. That included the final year of signing bonus proration ($440,393) from his rookie deal.
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