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The Hype Is Real, Deserved for Kyler Murray, but Patience Is Key with Rookie QB

You know the story.

The Arizona Cardinals hired the recently fired Kliff Kingsbury, who failed to turn around his alma mater Texas Tech before taking the offensive coordinator job at USC, and the football world immediately connected the dots to Heisman Trophy-winning, mighty-mite-sized quarterback Kyler Murray.

People said it wouldn't happen. Arizona Cardinals executives even took to Twitter to warn against theories that the team liked Murray enough to tell him to play football over baseball—a story that can now be confirmed.

But the Cardinals did draft Murray.