Analysis: Kyler Murray is short, polarizing and a perfect No. 1 pick for a new-look NFL
Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray has a chance to be the No. 1 pick in this year's draft. By Adam Kilgore Adam Kilgore Reporter covering national sports Email Bio Follow March 1 at 6:02 PM INDIANAPOLIS — Someday in the distant future, in an attempt to understand the depth of football’s hold on the American populace, historians may begin with what happened here Thursday morning at the NFL Scouting Combine. Kyler Murray described a somehow momentous episode like this: “I showed up.
And so Murray is not only improbably in the NFL draft. He may be taken near the top, if not first overall. The Arizona Cardinals hold the first pick. New coach Kliff Kingsbury recruited Murray — the nation’s top high school player back then — when he was at Texas Tech and subsequently made his affection for his game known. Cardinals General Manager Steve Keim infamously said here that Josh Rosen, their first-round quarterback last season, was the team’s quarterback “for now.
Pro football, and the way the NFL views quarterbacks, has changed. Height is considered a bonus, not a prerequisite. “I look up to him,” Murray said, making a figurative statement that is also literally true. “Watching him do it at [5-11], putting doubters to rest, is a good deal.”
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