> The Arizona Cardinals Football Club today announced that the team has been awarded its waiver claim on offensive lineman **Roy Mbaeteka** (mm-BEH-tick-uh) from the Cleveland Browns. He has been placed on the team’s exempt/international player list.
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> **Mbaeteka** (6-8, 330) was originally signed by the New York Giants in 2022 as part of the NFL’s International Player Pathway Program and has spent time on the practice squads of the Chicago Bears (2023) and Cleveland Browns (2024). A native of Benin City, Nigeria, Mbaeteka never played organized football prior to participating at a camp in his home country in 2021.
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> Mbaeteka will wear jersey #79.