The Arizona Cardinals signed defensive deal with Coziah Izzard and positioned rookie DT Kaleb Proctor on the season-ending IR.
There was a gap within the defensive deal with room when Proctor tore his meniscus in early June throughout OTAs.
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Izzard has been inserted into Arizona’s depth chart, which at the moment has eight DTs on the coaching camp roster. Usually, the membership will solely maintain 4 defensive tackles and 5 defensive ends. Izzard will likely be seeking to safe one of many spots, after which develop into a part of a rotational lineup.
Izzard (6’-3”, 305 kilos) went undrafted in final 12 months’s NFL draft earlier than signing with the Kansas City Chiefs after a stellar school marketing campaign at Penn State. Despite having a good camp, he was launched on the ultimate cutdown day, then signed to the apply squad, after which waived.
Four days later, the New Orleans Saints signed him to their apply squad, the place he spent all of 2025. Although he inked a reserve/futures contract in January, the Saints launched him on June 17. With Proctor’s loss, the Cardinals had been searching for to fill that void and signed Izzard after a tryout with different gamers on Tuesday.
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In highschool, Izzard was named All-Conference for all 4 years. His faculty gained the state championship in his senior 12 months. He had 23 major-program school soccer affords.
Because of the pandemic, Izzard was a fifth-year senior. He performed in 50 video games with simply seven begins, 78 whole tackles, 17.5 tackles for loss, 9 sacks, 0 batted passes, and a pair of pressured fumbles.
Projected DT starters embrace Walter Nolen and Roy Lopez. Izzard might want to have an incredible coaching camp with journeyman Andrew Billings, L.J. Collier and PJ Mustipher the favorites to seize the ultimate two spots.