Arizona Cardinals not 100 percent set on Kyler Murray

According to Peter King of NBC Sports, the Arizona Cardinals are not 100 percent invested in the idea of drafting Kyler Murray first overall.

In case you already started your final 2019 NFL mock draft with a Sharpie or have started downloading it as a PDF and sent it to be published, you may want to start afresh or at least wait a little bit longer.

It sounds like Kyler Murray to the Arizona Cardinals is not quite a done deal, as Peter King of NBC Sports is reporting that there is not ‘unanimity’ among the lead decision makers at this point whether the Cardinals should take Murray, trade down, or take Nick Bosa.

"“I don’t believe there is unanimity inside the Cardinals building today either to take Murray, trade down for a passel of picks to a Murray-loving team, or to sit at one and take an impact player for the defense like edge-rusher Nick Bosa. Then again, if GM Steve Keim and Kingsbury both want Murray, that’s going to be the pick.”Peter King"

King goes on to note that the Cardinals have a variety of needs all over the roster. This is a team that has made a number of moves over the course of this offseason to try and fill some holes, but they need an infusion of young talent all across the board.

Murray would be a fine centerpiece for a rebuild in Arizona, but the Cardinals do have to weigh the cost of trading away Josh Rosen for pennies on the dollar just to get Murray in the fold.

Everything the Cardinals have done this offseason seems to indicate they are letting Kliff Kingsbury make that call. Kingsbury knows Murray from his days all the way back at Texas A&M. At this point, everyone knows that.

The fact that the Cardinals went with Kingsbury as their head coach indicates either Kingsbury decided he would latch on with Rosen or the Cardinals promised him he could basically pick his own quarterback.

And for the past month or two, every rumor about the top pick has centered around the Cardinals picking Murray.

Some are more confident than others, and now the Cardinals and Murray have met face-to-face on a pre-draft meeting.

It wasn’t until that meeting that the rumor mill started spinning these waves against the momentum that had already been built up for the Cardinals taking Murray.

Not many scenarios involving Murray falling past the top overall selection have come up in recent months. What would happen if the Cardinals decided to pass on Kyler and even trade the pick?

It would certainly create a fascinating scenario, but the other team that has been rumored most interested in Murray is Jon Gruden’s Oakland Raiders.

Wouldn’t it be something if he could get his hands on him? It would probably cost him a first-round pick in next year’s draft, but he probably doesn’t care too much about that. Gruden really only cares about putting his imprint back on the Raiders, and taking Murray would accomplish that.

I still think the Cardinals are going to take Murray, but King’s report coupled with Daniel Jeremiah putting his confidence meter on the pick from 90 percent to 60 percent is something worth watching as well.