Murray 'by far the most appealing' QB option in FA
Jay Croucher, Connor Rogers, and Matthew Berry believe Kyler Murray will attract a lot of attention in free agency as het gets set to be released from the Arizona Cardinals next week.
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We talked a lot about Kyler Murray already.
The Cardinals have informed him they're gonna release him.
I don't think we need to spend a ton of time.
But from a fantasy angle, Jay, where would you wanna see Kyler Murray next year?
Because this is somebody a couple years ago was extremely relevant.
He's become a totally forgotten man due to injury, and he's taken a step back in play.
But at 28 years old, it's not like we're gonna leave him for dead.
Yeah, that's the thing with Kyler is that he- he's 28 years old, and I think that he's become a little bit underrated, where I understand he hasn't lived up to the expectations of being a number one pick, as evidenced by that team is going to release him, and he hasn't really lived up to what he showed back when his I think his peak season was probably 2021, where he was the MVP favorite halfway through the year, and Kliff Kingsbury was Coach of the Year favorite, and the Cardinals were in the one seed.
It's been a steep fall since then.
But I think Kyler, I thought two seasons ago, I thought he was perfectly fine.
21 passing touchdowns, 11 interceptions, over seven yards per attempt.
That was a perfectly good season at a average to slightly above average NFL star level.
And then this past season wasn't great, but at the same time it was five games and one of them was against Seattle.
That was the game where he really struggled.
So ultimately I think that Kyler, I still think there is clearly some juice in the tank.
Of all the available quarterbacks, I think that he is by far the most appealing in terms of where I would like to see him land from both a fantasy and NFL perspective.
I think that Miami is interesting because of the weapons that they have, pairing him with Jaylen Waddle and Deven Achane as a receiving threat and just going all in on speed again in that offense.
But, I mean, it's probably controversial.
Everyone's just penciling in Daniel Jones back to the Colts.
As a lifelong diehard Colts man, I'd rather have Kyler Murray than Daniel Jones coming off a torn Achilles.
I think if you just wanna look at taking a swing, to be a team that has more upside to actually win the AFC, I'm not sure you're really getting there with Daniel Jones off of this injury, and the shine was already kind of coming off Daniel Jones before the injury in any case.
So, people don't br- throw the Colts into these kind of conversations the way that they do with the Vikings, who are always the go-to, or the Falcons or teams like that.
But the Colts, I mean, with Daniel Jones at the helm, this was, like, greatest offense of all time for two months to start the season, statistically at least.
And so I think that, you know, Kyler Murray behind that offensive line with Jonathan Taylor taking the load off in the backfield with the weapons they have, that is the destination to me that is the most appealing.
Yeah.
Yeah, you know what?
I What I would say there is I think that makes a ton of sense, and I think Kyler Murray and Shane Steichen offense, he'd know how to, you know, specifically use Kyler's skills.
I think the challenge there is that Kyler, it's gonna be similar to the Russell Wilson deal when he went to Pittsburgh, which is that, Arizona is still on the hook for a massive amount of money.
I think it's 26 something million.
So Kyler's gonna go somewhere and sign for, like, the minimum because he's still getting paid by Arizona.
And so because he's Kyler Murray, because we expect Malik Willis to go off the board, in essence, he's gonna be like a, you know, a dir- who's likely the best available free agent quarterback.
He's gonna have his pick of teams, and I suspect that what him and his camp will wanna do is go to the It'll be a one-year prove-it deal that'll be, like, just this, you know, rookie You know, not rookie, but the le- just league minimum because he's getting so much money from Arizona.
And he'll go to the team where he has the best chance to start to be the guy.
And so I think if you're Kyler Murray and Minnesota's interested, you're like, "I could go to Indianapolis, but they just franchise tagged Daniel Jones.
He's Whenever he gets back healthy, it's probably gonna be him," versus, "All I gotta do is beat out J.J.
McCarthy?"
You know what I mean?
And I got, I got Justin Jefferson and, you know, Jalen Naylor and Jordan Addison to throw to, and T.J. Hockenson.
You know?
you know, and I get to play indoors on turf.
You know, so I, I think that's interesting.
I'll also say for fantasy purposes, I'd be fine with the Jets.
Again, you know, Connor, they're gonna be terrible, but, I for fantasy purposes, junk time still counts.
You know?
Right.
Still, he's still got Garrett Wilson, he's still got Breece Hall, which we'll get to.
They'll be running around.
They'll be in, you know, negative gain scripts all the time.
Like, I think Kyler Murray would, would be a, you know, a viable fantasy starter on the Jets just because of the nature of fantasy football and that team.
He may not wanna go there be- Right for a variety of reasons.
But if you ask me where do I want for fantasy, I think, I think Minnesota a- as somebody who has Kyler Murray in dynasty, I, I prefer, I prefer Minnesota or the Jets.
Teams where I think, A, he can put up numbers, and B, he's gonna be the starter, no question, for the majority of the year, if not the entire season.
