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Kyler Murray's signature performance against the Seattle Seahawks finished prematurely. With the Arizona Cardinals up 20-7 over the Seahawks, the promising No. 1 pick left with a hamstring injury and is questionable to return, the team announced.
Murray wobbled onto the sideline with a slight limp after pulling off a near third-down conversion scramble early in the third quarter. He logged four rushing yards on the play.
Brett Hundley filled in for Murray. Before entering the game, his lone pass attempt was an incompletion.
Before leaving the game, Murray was enjoying a successful day against the Seattle defense. The rookie shot-caller went 11 of 18 for 118 yards and a touchdown. A dual-threat, he also tallied six rush attempts for 40 yards.
Though a career backup, Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury has faith in Hundley. Before officially naming Murray the starter, he riled up a ruckus by hinting at a quarterback controversy that fizzled quickly.
“We'll see,” Kingsbury said on The Jim Rome Show when asked if Murray will start in Week 1 (h/t Herbie Teope of NFL.com). “We're still working through all those things. We have Brett Hundley here—who we're very excited about—but we'll see where that kind of goes.”
The Cardinals made Murray the No. 1 pick of the 2019 NFL Draft out of Oklahoma. He has enjoyed an Offensive Rookie of the Year-esque campaign, being the only quarterback to enter Week 16 with 3,000-plus passing yards and 500-plus rushing yards.
Arizona signed Hundley to a one-year deal in the offseason. Previously, he backed up Russell Wilson in Seattle.
