The Arizona Cardinals received a blow to their wide receivers corps on Monday, releasing veteran wideout Michael Crabtree from the team, per ESPN's Adam Schefter on Twitter.
The 32-year-old receiver signed a one-year contract with the Cardinals prior to the 2019 NFL season. After missing the first game of the year, Crabtree had only appeared 31 offensive snaps between Arizona's Weeks 2 and 3 matchups.
Crabtree ends his brief Cards career with four receptions for 22 yards. He did not score a touchdown either.
While he was never listed as harboring an injury, Crabtree's Week 1 absence was due to a healthy scratch; he had only inked a deal with the NFC West franchise roughly two weeks before the start of the regular season.
Prior to his short stint with Arizona, Crabtree spent a single season with the Baltimore Ravens, who released him in February earlier this year. Before that, Crabtree was a stalwart receiver for the Oakland Raiders for three years.
Crabtree's career began coming out of Texas Tech when the San Francisco 49ers selected the former Red Raider with the 10th overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. The 6-foot-1 receiver spent six years with the Niners before changing Bay Area teams in 2015.
It appears the veteran is not a fit with the Cardinals, however.
In spite of the face of the franchise Larry Fitzgerald, the 36-year-old still-effective receiver, still on the team, Arizona and rookie head coach Kliff Kingsbury will part with Crabtree and instead look for Fitzgerald and second-year wideout Christian Kirk to lift up their first-overall selection from last April's draft in quarterback Kyler Murray.