Despite being injured, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray, who is recovering from a torn ACL and will miss at least the first four games of the regular season after starting out on the physically unable to perform list, has been named one of the team captains.
It marks the fourth straight season that Murray has been named one of the team captains, and this year he joins running back James Conner, left tackle D.J. Humphries, linebacker Kyzir White, safety Budda Baker, and linebacker Dennis Gardeck, who plays special teams.
“He’s our franchise quarterback,” first-year Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon said, according to ESPN. “And everything that I want our captains to be, he demonstrates it.”
“He’s earned [being a captain],” Humphries said of Murray being named a captain. “The work that he put in the summer that we all got to watch, it’s been impressive and it’s going to come out tenfold when we get back on that field.”
The Cardinals will enter the regular season with either journeyman Josh Dobbs, whom they acquired in a late August trade with the Cleveland Browns, or rookie fifth-round draft pick Clayton Tune at quarterback when they take on the Washington Commanders in Week 1.
