After agreeing to trade a sixth-round draft pick to the Denver Broncos in exchange for pass rusher Baron Browning, the Arizona Cardinals are set to pay all of Browning’s remaining salary this season.
Browning went into the year with a $3.116 million base salary. Nine games into the season, he is still owed $1.56 million and the Cardinals will pay all of it, according to the Denver Post‘s Parker Gabriel.
It’s not much, but everything adds up for a team like the Broncos who are eating $53 million in dead money this season after cutting quarterback Russell Wilson in the spring.
Denver could have potentially received a compensatory draft pick if Browning walked in free agency next spring, but that would have depended on his next contract and the Broncos’ own free agency moves. Instead of weighing comp formulas next year, Denver decided to take a guaranteed sixth-round pick to trade Browning now.
The Broncos now hold seven draft picks in 2025.
