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He is in the NFL now with an obvious upgrade in talent around him, but Andy Isabella could only smile Friday when asked about catching passes from his new quarterback, Kyler Murray.
“Probably the best I’ve ever been thrown,” the rookie receiver from UMass said. “Dream come true, basically.”
To that notion, Murray was all but speechless. “That’s flattering,” the Cardinals’ top draft choice said with a chuckle.
Murray is used to praise, after going undefeated as a high school quarterback, after winning the Heisman Trophy in his lone season playing full time in college, after becoming the top pick in the NFL draft. Truthfully, there wasn’t a lot to be learned at the Dignity Health Arizona Cardinals Training Center after one practice of the team’s rookie minicamp.
But at least the Cardinals were playing some football, which Murray certainly didn’t mind.
“A lot of this process has been a lot of talk and evaluation,” Murray said. “Just to be able to play football again with the guys, to do what you love, it’s fun.”
Coach Kliff Kingsbury, working closely with the quarterbacks during the workout, called Murray’s day “not bad.” Familiarity with Kingsbury’s system, given similarities with what Murray ran in college at Oklahoma, helped.
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