Nicknames are tricky things. They can come out of nowhere, like a tree branch in a hurricane, so obvious they seem like they’ve always been there, so durable they stick for a lifetime.
So it is with Kyler Murray, who made the unfortunate choice earlier this week to go after teammate Chandler Jones. While praising Jones, Murray said that perhaps the linebacker’s physical shape isn’t quite ready for a model shoot, laughing that “He takes his shirt off and it doesn’t look too good.”
Jones, as you’d expect from an All-Pro linebacker, responded with a devastating hit on the quarterback:
Baby Yoda!