When Kliff Kingsbury signed on to be the coach of the Arizona Cardinals the rumors already started swirling that the team would draft Kyler Murray with the number one pick. The team, of course, ended up drafting him but the one thing that Kingsbury wanted to make clear, was that he didn't demand that is what the team did.
“Biggest misconception about your role in this?” Peter King of NBC Sports asked.
“That I rolled here and was just like, ‘We’re taking Kyler Murray,’“ Kingsbury said. “First off … I don’t have that type of juice coming in the door. That wasn’t how it went down at all.”
Kingsbury said that if the Cardinals would have taken Joey Bosa or someone else he would have done everything in his power to help Josh Rosen take the next step forward and was more than prepared to do that.
“I’d have said, ‘Let’s go to work,’ “ Kingsbury said. “That’s why I signed on here. I knew I was coming here to try and improve the offense. We were last in everything. Try to help Josh become a better player, more comfortable in the system, continue to build him. That was my job. If that was what we were going to do, that’s what I signed up for in the first place.”
It would be interesting to know just how much say that Kingsbury had being a first-year coach in the NFL. It's clear that he didn't have a complete say, but there is no doubt that his input played a significant role in Murray being the first overall pick.
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