Highlights
- Ojulari tore his ACL in August 2024 training camp, missing the full season and nine games of 2025.
- He recorded four sacks as a 2023 second-round pick but managed only one sack in eight games last year.
- Ojulari is in the final year of his rookie contract, carrying a 2026 salary of more than $1.9 million.
- Arizona Sports and RotoGrinders both report Ojulari is targeting double-digit sacks heading into camp.
BJ Ojulari arrived at Arizona Cardinals training camp this week with a clean bill of health and something to prove, the team confirmed Friday. The outside linebacker, whose last two seasons were defined by a torn ACL and a slow return from it, is now able to play without managing his knee.
Ojulari tore the ACL during August 2024 training camp, wiping out his entire second NFL season before it started. He returned for the final two months of 2025 but appeared in only eight games, recording one sack, nine tackles, and three quarterback hits. The Cardinals reported to camp July 22.
The stakes are straightforward. Ojulari, a second-round pick out of LSU in 2023 who posted four sacks as a rookie, is in the final year of his four-year rookie contract with a 2026 salary of more than $1.9 million. A healthy, productive season earns him a second contract; another lost year does not.
Arizona Sports has noted the Cardinals need Ojulari to pick up slack in their pass-rushing department, and RotoGrinders reports he is targeting double-digit sacks heading into camp. Ojulari also held a youth camp in his hometown of Marietta, Georgia last month alongside his brother Azeez, an edge rusher for the Atlanta Falcons.
The Cardinals' regular-season opener will determine whether Ojulari's first fully healthy camp in two years translates to production.
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