The Arizona Cardinals and the rest of the NFL kickoff on Sunday… well technically on Thursday Night Football with one of the biggest rivalries in the game.
However, for the Cardinals and the rest of the NFL, Sunday is the day.
Today, the team announced a couple of practice squad moves heading into week one.
The Arizona Cardinals Football Club today announced that the team has signed linebacker Jared Bartlett to the practice squad and has released offensive lineman Roy Mbaeteka from the practice squad.
In addition, the team has been granted an international player practice squad exemption for defensive lineman Denzel Daxon.
The signings took place today at the Dignity Health Arizona Cardinals Training Center in Tempe, AZ.
Bartlett (6-2, 238) entered the league with the New York Jets as an undrafted rookie free agent out of Cincinnati and spent the preseason with both the Jets and Packers. He played collegiately at Cincinnati (2024) and West Virginia (2019-23) and appeared in 61 games, recording 204 tackles (107 solo), 21.5 sacks, 32.5 tackles for a loss, five passes defensed, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.
Daxon (6-2, 320) is a native of the Bahamas and moved to the United States in 2016. He spent the 2024 season on the Cowboys practice squad as the team’s international player and was with Dallas this preseason. Daxon entered the league last year with Dallas as an undrafted rookie free agent from Illinois. He played at Illinois in 2023 after beginning his collegiate career at Ohio (2019-22).
Bartlett will wear jersey #48 and Daxon will wear #59.
Good luck to Mbaeteka in whatever is next, and welcome to the desert to Jared and Denzel.
