Cardinals' Kyler Murray apologizes to fans ahead of expected release: 'I am sorry I failed us'

When the Arizona Cardinals drafted Kyler Murray archetypal wide successful 2019, they were hoping helium was the backmost to pb them backmost to the Super Bowl. 

Instead, aft 7 seasons with the franchise, wherever Murray went 38-48-1 arsenic the team’s starter implicit 87 games, the squad is moving on. 

Murray seemingly confirmed reports that the Cardinals are acceptable to merchandise the seasoned awesome caller adjacent week erstwhile the caller league twelvemonth begins, releasing a connection via societal media. In his statement, Murray shared remorse for not being capable to bash what helium intended coming retired of Oklahoma arsenic the apical draught prime successful 2019. 

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Arizona Cardinals backmost Kyler Murray (1) warms up earlier their crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders astatine State Farm Stadium successful Glendale, connected Aug. 23, 2025. (IMAGN)

"To everyone that supported maine and showed kindness to my household and I during my clip successful AZ, from the bottommost of my heart, convey you," Murray wrote connected X. "I wanted thing much than to beryllium the 1 to extremity the 77-year drought for this organization, I americium atrocious I failed us. I privation this assemblage and my brothers thing but the best. 

"I americium nary alien to adversity, I americium prepared for whatever’s next. I spot successful God and my enactment ethic. I genuinely judge my champion shot is successful beforehand of maine and I look guardant to proving it. Godspeed."

Murray is inactive owed $36.8 cardinal successful guaranteed wealth from his five-year, $230.5 cardinal hold helium signed successful 2022. But they volition prevention an other $19.5 cardinal that would person been triggered for the 2027 NFL season. 

Murray, 28, has had an up-and-down NFL vocation frankincense far, arsenic injuries and inconsistent play person been a storyline helium couldn’t shingle contempt games wherever helium proved wherefore the squad loved him arsenic the archetypal wide pick. 

This past season, Murray went 2-3 successful his 5 games played, throwing for six touchdowns and 3 interceptions earlier a ft wounded knocked him retired the remainder of the way. Jacoby Brissett, who figures to instrumentality implicit arsenic the team’s starter successful the 2nd twelvemonth of the two-year woody helium signed this past offseason with the franchise, took implicit for Murray and thrived contempt what the grounds said. He threw for a career-high 3,366 yards with 23 touchdowns and 8 interceptions. 

Arizona Cardinals backmost Kyler Murray (1) looks to propulsion a walk during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Tennessee Titans, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025, successful Glendale, Arizona. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

The Cardinals, though, yet finished 3-14, and the franchise went successful a antithetic absorption with the firing of caput manager Jonathan Gannon. Mike LaFleur, who served arsenic the Los Angeles Rams’ violative coordinator, is his replacement heading into 2026. 

Arizona is besides stocked with the 3rd wide draught prime adjacent period and presently has astir $30 cardinal successful headdress abstraction to enactment with. Murray was the apical headdress hit, and that volition stay owed to the wealth he’s inactive owed. However, this is simply a rebuilding squad, and the Cardinals made the pugnacious prime to bash truthful astatine the league’s astir important position. 

Early successful his Cardinals tenure, Murray was idiosyncratic to physique astir aft making back-to-back Pro Bowls successful 2020 and 2021, the second of which seeing 3,787 yards with 24 passing touchdowns and 423 rushing yards with 5 scores connected the ground. He besides rushed for 819 yards with 11 rushing scores successful 2020 – a portion of his crippled that made him truthful electrical connected the field. 

Arizona Cardinals backmost Kyler Murray (1) during the 2nd fractional against the Carolina Panthers astatine Bank of America Stadium.  (Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images)

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Injuries, though, enactment a damper connected Murray’s career, including a torn ACL successful Week 14 of the 2022 season, forcing him to miss 9 games successful 2023. Then, aft a afloat 17-game play successful 2024, helium suffered the ft wounded that helium couldn’t get disconnected past year.

Perhaps a caller commencement is what’s needed to get Murray backmost connected track. Teams similar the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins could beryllium options, arsenic they hunt for quarterbacks this offseason. 

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