The Athletic’s<\/a> Mike Sando. <\/p>\n\u201cYou could probably trade him straight up off the $19.5 million, or if you cut him, then he\u2019s making $1.5 million next year with someone else, so it\u2019s an $18 million risk. If you can get a third-round pick for him, that is well worth the risk.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was a point often brought up around the desert in Murray’s presence for the 2026 season. The Cardinals by no means were forced to part ways with Murray, though the split was obvious. A disgruntled Murray simply would not have been a good roster or locker room decision under the first-year tutelege of Mike LaFleur. <\/p>\n
There were a number of teams tied to Murray trade rumors before he was released, though none were more prominent than the New York Jets \u2014 who ultimately landed Geno Smith and are clearly eying younger and cheaper options in the future. <\/p>\n
Yet with head coach Aaron Glenn assumingly coaching for his job in 2026, many thought Murray made sense to give the Jets the best chance of winning. <\/p>\n
\u201cHow were the Cardinals not able to trade him to the Jets, eat $35 million this year and then the Jets are on the hook for the $19.5 million next year?\u201d that exec continued to Sando. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat is basically two years at $25 million. The Jets would not have signed up for that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Teams obviously were not willing to take Murray’s salary on their books, especially with the Cardinals ultimately paying such a large dead cap figure \u2014 which allowed their former franchise quarterback to sign a one-year, $1.3 million deal with the Minnesota Vikings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARIZONA \u2014 The Arizona Cardinals’ separation from Kyler Murray was far from a surprise this offseason, though their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-586272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}