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The Arizona Cardinals certainly aren't making their interest in Kyler Murray a secret. Doubling down on comments he made last season while at Texas Tech, first-year Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury showered the reigning Heisman Trophy winner with praise on Tuesday, calling him “one of the better dual threat players to ever play.”
“I mean, I guess it's more what don't you like? When you watch him play, I mean he can run it, he can throw it, he's a competitor,” Kingsbury said of Murray, per ESPN's Adam Schefter. “He's one of the better dual threat players to ever play.”
Kingsbury made his affinity for Murray abundantly clear last fall, telling KAMC's Erik Kelly that the former Oklahoma signal-caller is a “freak,” and that he would “take him with the first pick in the draft if I could.” Arizona, of course, owns the No. 1 pick in the draft this year, and hired Kingsbury in part due to his reputation as one of the most impactful quarterback gurus in all of football.
Still, the team has been hesitant to signal its interest in moving on from incumbent starting quarterback Josh Rosen, taken with the tenth overall pick a year ago. The UCLA product struggled immensely during his rookie season behind a porous offensive line, throwing for 11 touchdowns, 14 interceptions, and completing just 55.2 percent of his passes. In February, both Kingsbury and general manager Steve Keim suggested the team was committed to Rosen, with the former calling him “our guy.”
Subsequent reports, though, have indicated the Cardinals are gauging the trade market for Rosen, and Kingbury's continued public fawning over Murray will only lend further credence to those rumors as the draft approaches.
