The Arizona Cardinals will make changes with their roster in the offseason as they try to take the next step and become a playoff team. Some players will not be re-signed after their contracts expire. Some might not return. Some players will probably be cut or traded.
It appears that some soon-to-be free agents already know they will not be returning. We saw how linebacker and defensive captain Kyzir White posted a likely goodbye to Arizona on social media.
Another player appears to be doing the same.
Receiver Zach Pascal, who spent the last two seasons with the Cardinals, did the same thing on Instragram.
He thanked Arizona, which is usually a goodbye.
Pascal is scheduled to be a free agent in March after the two-year contract he signed in 2023 expires.
Pascal played in all 17 games for the Cardinals this season but, for the first time in his career, did not have a reception. He was not even targeted in his 68 offensive snaps all season. He played 278 special teams snaps and had three special teams tackles.
He turned 30 years old last month.
Pascal has spent almost his entire career on a team where Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon is. He played for the Indianapolis Colts from 2018-2021. Gannon was cornerbacks coach for Indy from 2018-2020. In 2022, a year after Gannon became the defensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles, Pascal signed with the Eagles. When Gannon became the Cardinals’ head coach in 2023, Pascal followed him to Arizona.
Pascal has been a core special teams player for two years for the Cardinals but was the very back of the depth chart at receiver.
Gannon spoke about how the team would look different in 2025 and that there would be turnover.
“Everybody knows in this building change is inevitable. That’s going to happen. The team is not going to look like this,” Gannon said in his end-of-season press conference on Monday. “The team meeting today is going to be drastically different than the Tuesday after Easter when (the) offseason program starts.
“You thank them, and I’m appreciative of everybody because they did what I asked them to do. We do things our style, which isn’t for everybody, and that’s fine. It’s knowing that sometimes a lot of these guys that have made a lot of sacrifices and have laid it on the line for you as a coach to be successful, they’re not going to be here. You wish them well.”
If Pascal does not return, hopefully he lands with another to continue his NFL career if that is what he wants to do.
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