The NFL offseason continues to proceed with a sense of uncertainty, but the Cardinals keep making daily news since the start of free agency a week ago.

They did it again on Thursday, announcing they have agreed to terms with veteran right tackle Marcus Gilbert on a one-year contract and that running back Kenyan Drake has formally signed his one-year transition tag.

Drake’s representatives revealed earlier this week that Drake had committed to signing his one-year offer from the team, which will pay him $8.4 million in 2020. The Cardinals’ leading rusher from a year ago after joining the club in a midseason trade from the Dolphins, Drake will be Arizona’s featured ball career in a backfield that will also include Chase Edmonds and D.J. Foster.

Gilbert, 32, becomes the 12th free agent the Cardinals have been able to bring back from last season. Acquired in a trade from the Steelers for a conditional sixth-round draft pick, he was slated to be the club’s starting right tackle until suffering a torn ACL in practice a week before the season opener.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that Gilbert’s deal was worth up to $3.75 million per Gilbert’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus.

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Once he is cleared to practice – whenever it is that normal football activities resume across the league – Gilbert projects as the leading contender to win the starting right tackle job. Justin Murray, who started 12 games there for the team in 2019, will also compete for the spot.

Murray will return for at least one more season after being tendered a one-year deal as an exclusive-rights restricted free agent.

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Those moves, along with signing left tackle D.J. Humphries to a three-year contract extension in February, essentially help keep fourth-fifths of the Cardinals’ offensive line intact from a year ago. The lone exception, for now, remains veteran center A.Q. Shipley.

He is an unrestricted free agent and it isn’t known if Arizona plans to bring him back or hand the starting job over to third-year pro Mason Cole, who started all 16 games as a rookie in 2018.

Gilbert started 87 of the 88 games he appeared in at right tackle for the Steelers during his eight years with the team from 2011-18 after entering the league as a second-round pick out of Florida. He also started eight postseason games for Pittsburgh.

Drake, 26, rushed for 643 yards and eight touchdowns on 123 carries, averaging 5.2 yards per run. He had three 100-yard games for the Cardinals after topping 100 or more yards only twice in his 54 games with the Dolphins. He became the first Cardinals player to rush for four touchdowns in a game since 1993.

By signing his transition tag, Drake is under contract for at least the 2020 season but he and the Cardinals have until July 22 to agree on a multi-year deal if they prefer. If they can’t reach a deal, then Drake will play on the one-year tender, which pays a player the average of the Top 10 contracts in the league at his position. For running backs in 2020, that salary has been designated at $8.483 million.

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