Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray sustained a hamstring injury in Week 16, but that did not stop the rookie from suiting up during his team's season finale against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.
After the loss to the Rams, Murray said his hamstring felt sore before the game and that he had to be talked into playing:
“They had to like convince me just because I'm more concerned, not wanting to injure it more, but at the same time, I understood it is what it is,” Murray said, according to Josh Weinfuss of ESPN.com. “I'm a competitor. If I hurt it, I'm going to hurt it. So, when I was out there I wasn't even thinking about it.”
Murray completed 26 of his 42 throws for 325 yards, a couple of touchdowns and a pair of interceptions in the defeat, but his mobility was obviously limited, as the carried the ball just twice for no yardage.
Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury said that Murray was not at risk of further injury by playing:
“It was a deal where if he strained it more, he wouldn't have gone,” Kingsbury said. “He felt it but really, you saw he didn't try to take off. We didn't run him at all. He did a nice job of not kicking it into fifth gear.”
Even if Murray couldn't make the injury worse, the fact that Arizona basically told him to play in spite of the fact that he had a bum hamstring is strange, especially considering that the Cardinals were not playing for anything meaningful.
The Cards finished the season with a record of 5-10-1.
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