Arizona Cardinals choose Univ. of Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray with first pick in the NFL college draft, uniting Murray with a coach who many experts say is a perfect fit.
As an assistant coach at Texas A&M University and then as head coach at Texas Tech University, Kingsbury was credited with discovering and developing two Heisman-winning quarterbacks — Johnny Manziel and Baker Mayfield — as well as Patrick Mahomes, who in only his second season in the NFL led the Kansas City Chiefs to the playoffs and was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year.
Murray is expected to quickly unseat Josh Rosen, who won only three of the 13 games he started as the Cardinals' quarterback last season, throwing more interceptions than touchdowns. "Here's the one thing you need to know about Kyler," Jim Zorn, a veteran NFL quarterbacks coach and former head coach of the Washington Redskins, told ESPN this month."Short goes away when you see what he can do."The San Francisco 49ers had the second pick and were widely expected to go for Nick Bosa, an offense-destroying defensive lineman from Ohio State University.
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