TEMPE, Ariz. – The cardinals get the pass they need.

A day before the NFL trade deadline, the Cardinals sent a 2025 sixth-round pick to the Denver Broncos in exchange for pass rusher Baron Browning.

The transaction is pending a physical, the Cardinals announced.

Browning played just five games at outside linebacker for the Broncos this season after a left foot injury in Week 2 put him on injured reserve for four weeks. He has seven tackles and no sacks this year, but is finishing the seasons with 4.5 and 5.0 sacks, respectively. Browning was a 2021 third-round pick out of Ohio State.

He fills a need for Arizona, whose pass rush has been decimated this season by injuries to BJ Ojulari and Dennis Gardeck. Ojulari, who was expected to be one of Arizona’s starting outside linebackers, tore his left ACL during training camp, and Gardeck tore his right ACL two weeks ago during a win over the Los Angeles Chargers on “Monday Night Football.”

The Cardinals, who are coming off a season-high six-sack performance Sunday after a win over the Chicago Bears, have 21 sacks this season, putting them on pace for 39, six more than last year.

In the Broncos’ rotation among their outside linebackers, rookie Jonah Elliss has steadily gained playing time — he had his three-highest snap counts of the season over the past five games — and Nik Bonitto and Jonathon Cooper lead the Broncos in sacks with Met 6 and 5.5 respectively, Browning was on track for a career with little playing time.

In his five games this season, Browning had averaged 24.4 snaps per game, or about just over half of the snaps he averaged in games over the first three years of his career.

Browning will be an unrestricted free agent in March.

ESPN’s Jeff Legwold contributed to this report.