After finishing back to back seasons with 4-13 records, the Cardinals look to bounce back in 2024. A full season of Kyler Murray and a healthy offense surrounding him could be exactly what they need.
Kyler Murray was only able to play in five of seventeen games for the Cardinals a season ago due to his ACL injury. Even though Arizona only went 2-3 in that stretch, they looked like a team with more much life than the team in the previous twelve games.
The Cardinals focused a lot on defense in free agency after signing a couple of key pieces including: Justin Jones, Sean Murphy-Bunting, and Mack Wilson. Arizona ranked 25th in total defense in 2023, so they are hoping these new guys will sway that number upwards.
Moving onto the biggest story of the Cardinals offseason, the fourth overall pick in the NFL Draft. With that pick, the Cardinals took Marvin Harrison Jr. from Ohio State. Harrison Jr. was undoubtedly the best wideout in all of college football, making it an easy decision for Arizona to take him at number four.
Maserati Marv, as Gus Johnson likes to call him, will now join a receiver room that was in dire need of some new talent and a potential new WR1 for Kyler Murray. Harrison Jr. will join James Conner and Trey McBride as Kyler Murray's top three weapons in this upcoming season.
To say it nicely, Arizona has not been very good the past two seasons. Second year head coach Jonathan Gannon would love to change that in 2024. If Kyler Murray can stay healthy for a full seventeen games, then maybe this Cardinals team can surprise some people this season. If not, this team will surely finish in a similar position as the previous two seasons.
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