Jacoby Brissett Headlines List of 2026 Arizona Cardinals Team Captains

 

The Arizona Cardinals made Jacoby Brissett one of five team captains. Here's what Mike LaFleur had to say.

Donnie Druin | Sep 7, 2026

ARIZONA — The Arizona Cardinals announced their 2026 team captains today.

According to head coach Mike LaFleur, QB Jacoby Brissett, OL Hjalte Froholdt, LS Casey Kreiter, DB Budda Baker and LB Mack Wilson will be captains this season. LaFleur says the vote was held strictly by players in the locker room.

"Whether you're a captain or not a captain, you be who you are within your own personality. However, when you do get voted a captain, obviously that's kind of saying that your teammates, the locker room, looks up to you," LaFleur said.

"I can't think of five better people to look up to in terms of just guys that are going to keep it real with each other, hold people to standards, communicate with me. I don't need to know everything that's going on in locker room, I just need to know the stuff that's pertinent.

"Just because it's just those five doesn't mean that there aren't other guys. I mean, there was quite a few guys that I won't mention that were right up there in the running for it, and those guys are still going to have a voice too. Some of it's going to be through the silent tape, if that makes sense, because that's about as important as anything. Not what you say, but actually what you're doing."

LaFleur also gave an update on Cardinals running back Jeremiyah Love — you can find out more about that here.

Kreiter is the lone newcomer to Arizona this offseason to land as a captain while the offense and defense both have two representatives on their respective sides of the ball. All of Baker, Wilson and Froholdt are returning captains from last season.

Brissett steps into the role of both captain and full-time starter in Arizona this season. Despite outside noise and narratives after a lengthy contract battle that was eventually settled early into training camp, the Cardinals have been ultra high on Brissett — both on and off the field.

"That wasn't shocking to me, just in terms of his interaction with not just the offense, but this whole team," LaFleur said of Brissett being voted a captain.

"The more and more I'm around him, the more I get it in terms of the person. Always knew it from afar, but just having that first however long it's been seven weeks or so of being with him, it's been great."

Brissett is all but settled into his seat as Arizona's QB1 to begin the regular season, which begins Sunday when the Cardinals travel to face the Los Angeles Chargers.

Former Iowa, NFL tight end Dallas Clark named to 12-member John Mackey Award Select Committee

 

Former Iowa tight end Dallas Clark (right) visits with '23 Hawkeye signees Ben Kueter (left) and Leighton Jones during Hawkeye spring practice the morning of March 30, 2023 at the program's indoor facility in Iowa City, Iowa. (Rob Howe/HawkFanatic.com)

 

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Pat Harty  

August 19, 2026

 

By hawkeyesports.com

 

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa football consensus All-American Dallas Clark has been named to the 12-member committee for the John Mackey Award to select college football’s most outstanding tight end.

 

The award’s selection process will be led by a committee whose collective experience spans generations, positions and levels of the game.  The group will include former NFL players, John Mackey Award winners, Super Bowl championships, All-Americans, coaches, executives and broadcasters who remain actively connected to football today.

The 12-person committee will include: Jake Butt, Brian Mitchell, Greg Jones, Jake Marsh, Noah Eagle, Nick O’Leary, Dallas Clark, Aaron Taylor, Jarvis Johnson, Adam Breneman and Owen Daniels.

Clark (2002), O’Leary (Florida State, 2014) and Butt (Michigan, 2016) are former John Mackey Award recipients.

Clark, who lettered for the Hawkeyes from 2000-02, was a consensus first-team All-American and first-team All-Big Ten selection in 2022 after leading Iowa to a Big Ten title and an 11-2 record.  He finished with 1,281 receiving yards at Iowa and was inducted into the Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame in 2022.

After declaring for the NFL Draft, Clark was a first round selection of the Indianapolis Colts in 2023.  He played for the Colts (2003-11), Buccaneers (2012) and Ravens (2013) during his professional career. 

He was a starter for the Colts’ Super Bowl champion team in 2006.

During his professional career, Clark was first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowl selection in 2009.  He also is named to the Colts’ Ring of Honor. He had 505 receptions for 5,665 yards and 53 touchdowns as a professional and he broke several of Mackey’s franchise tight end records in Indianapolis.

Iowa has had two players win the Mackey Award – Clark and T.J. Hockenson in 2018. Sam LaPorta (2022) was a finalist and Tony Moeaki (2009), Allen Reisner (2010) and Noah Fant (2018) were semifinalists. Third-year DJ Vonnahme is on the John Mackey Award Preseason Watch List this season.

https://hawkfanatic.com/2026/08/19/former-iowa-nfl-tight-end-dallas-clark-named-to-12-member-john-mackey-award-select-committee/

Tom Arth, Pittsburgh Steelers

 

Steelers HC Mike McCarthy Already Ahead of Mike Tomlin in One Area

Brendan Howe  |  Updated: Aug 7, 2026

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback coach Tom Arth helps coach during a mini camp practice. Ed Thompson/Steelers Now

UNITY TWP, Pa. — During his tenure as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ head coach, Mike Tomlin had a very sparse coaching tree. His successor, Mike McCarthy, believes he already has an assistant who will lead an NFL team someday.

Tom Arth, entering his third season as the Steelers’ quarterback coach, has tutored Justin Fields, Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers during his time in that role.

“I just go back to when I first met Tom, in Green Bay, as a player,” McCarthy said before Friday’s training camp practice at St. Vincent College. “Just very, very detail-minded. You could see. I was not surprised at all that he went into coaching. He has phenomenal work ethic. I see Tom, our offices are right next to each other. He’s in office extremely early each morning, before 5 a.m. I walk in there at 5 a.m., so he’s rocking and rolling.

“He has a great rapport with the players. He’s a good, fundamental coach. But you gotta love his resume. He’s played, he’s been a head coach, he’s been at different levels. He has really good NFL experience, so I think Tom is definitely a future head coach in this league.”

Arth previously served as the passing game specialist for the Los Angeles Chargers (2022-23), as well as the head coach at Akron (2019-21), Chattanooga (2017-18) and John Carroll (2013-16).

https://steelersnow.com/steelers-hc-mike-mccarthy-already-ahead-of-mike-tomlin-in-one-area/