Highlights
- McBride landed at No. 13 in the NFL Top 100, voted by his peers after a historic 2025 season.
- He set the NFL single-season tight end reception record with 126 catches in 2025, topping Zach Ertz's 116 in 2018.
- An AP panel named him the league's top tight end, the first Cardinal at the position to earn first-team All-Pro honors.
- McBride is signed through 2029 on a four-year extension he inked April 3, 2025.
Trey McBride's peers put him at No. 13 in the NFL Top 100 this week, capping a 2025 season in which the Arizona Cardinals tight end rewrote the record books and earned first-team AP All-Pro honors, the first tight end in Cardinals franchise history to do so.
An AP panel separately voted McBride the top tight end in the league, as reported by the Associated Press. The Arizona Republic's azcentral also covered the AP panel's ranking.
McBride finished the 2025 season with 126 receptions, surpassing Zach Ertz's previous NFL tight end single-season record of 116 set in 2018. It was the second consecutive year he topped 100 catches, making him the first tight end in NFL history with 100-plus receptions in back-to-back seasons after hauling in 111 in 2024.
Over his first four seasons with Arizona (2022-2025), McBride recorded 347 receptions, the most by a tight end in NFL history through four years. The Cardinals selected him in the second round, 55th overall, in the 2022 draft.
He signed a four-year extension on April 3, 2025, keeping him in Arizona through the 2029 season. The Cardinals' next preseason game is scheduled before the regular season opener.
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- apnews.com retrieved 20/08/2026 15:25
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