Cardinals Stash Joey Blount, Kenny Yeboah on IR Before Season

The Cardinals cleared two names off the active roster before the season even started, dropping tight end Kenny Yeboah and safety Joey Blount onto injured reserve. Both landed there with fresh camp injuries, and neither will be eligible to come back during the regular season — the only path to game action this year would be an injury settlement and release down the line.

Yeboah tweaked his hamstring in the Hall of Fame Game on Thursday night, cutting short a Cardinals tenure that began when he signed in June. Blount, meanwhile, got the crueler deal: he was hurt in practice this week after a season-ending neck injury wiped out his Week 1 of 2025. Back-to-back seasons, back-to-back gut punches.

From a fantasy standpoint, this is a non-event dressed up as news. Yeboah's last regular-season snaps came with the Jets in 2024, when he caught 5 balls for 47 yards and a touchdown across nine games — good for a grand total of 16 PPR points on the year. That's not a stream-in-a-pinch tight end; that's a depth body.

Our model has Yeboah at #410 overall and just #80 among tight ends, which is another way of saying he was never on your radar and never should have been. Blount doesn't register in fantasy at all, as is typical for a rotational safety in standard formats.

The only Cardinals wrinkle worth a glance is what these moves do further up the depth chart. With Yeboah gone, Arizona's tight end reps consolidate behind their top options — but nothing here nudges any of them into must-add territory on its own. Keep watching the room, not this transaction.

Bottom line: if you somehow had Yeboah rostered in a deep dynasty or best-ball format, cut him loose. He's out for the year, buried on the depth chart, and worth zero roster spots in any redraft league. Move on and spend your waiver claim on someone who'll actually see the field.