The Arizona Cardinals opened training camp on Tuesday and announced a few roster moves. One was the signing of veteran tight end Geoff Swaim, who most recently played for the Tennessee Titans.
Swaim, who will turn 30 in September, has been in the league since 2015 when he was a seventh-round pick of the Dallas Cowboys.
He played four seasons for Dallas, followed by a one-year stint with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He played the last three seasons with the Titans.
Swaim is 6-4 and 260 pounds.
He started 37 of the 43 games in which he appeared over the last three seasons in Tennessee.
He isn’t a big pass catcher. He has 100 career receptions and his career-high in a season is 31 catches, which he had in 2021.
He is a solid blocker and was part of a Tennessee offense that featured Derrick Henry.
Before the addition of Swaim, the tight end consisted of veteran Zach Ertz, 2022 second-round pick Trey McBride and a bunch of young and unproven guys.
Ertz and McBride are roster locks. Swaim probably is as well, which means the rest of the guys are probably battling for one roster spot.
Noah Togiai, Bernhard Seikovits and undrafted rookies Blake Whiteheart and Joel Honigford will all have to battle for a spot on the roster.
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