The Cowboys may be circling Cardinals edge rusher Josh Sweat ahead of the trade deadline, according to Jeremy Fowler.
That possibility arrives after a messy, uncertain offseason around Sweat. He was away from the team for much of the spring, then spent most of camp on the PUP list because of an injury the team never really clarified. Sweat said he had an offseason procedure and made clear it was not on his knee, but that’s as much as he or the Cardinals have said publicly.
Arizona, for its part, turned away trade interest in Sweat all offseason. And after Week 1, the veteran said he wanted to remain in Arizona.
“People think I only came here for one reason and that was Jonathan Gannon, and yeah, that made the decision easier for me, but I know the guys that were here,” Sweat said. “I love the way they play.
I love that we want to make something bigger happen here. It’s too good of a place to be where it was last year.”
Sweat is 29 and came into the league as a fourth-round pick by the Eagles in the 2018 NFL Draft out of Florida State. He finished the last season of his four-year, $3.05 million rookie deal and made $920,000 in base salary in 2021.
He was headed for unrestricted free agency in 2022 before signing a three-year, $42 million extension. After playing out that contract, he was again set to hit free agency in 2025, when he landed a four-year, $76 million deal with the Cardinals.
This season, Sweat has played in six games for Arizona and put up nine total tackles with two sacks.
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