Cardinals attain take care of Crabtree, launch White
TEMPE, Ariz. — The second time was the allure for the Arizona Cardinals touchdown Michael Crabtree.
Arizona agreed to phrases on a one-year contract with the veteran extensive receiver late Wednesday evening, greater than two weeks after attempting him out throughout coaching camp.
The transfer got here hours after the Cardinals launched extensive receiver Kevin White and days after information surfaced about rookie receiver Hakeem Butler’s fractured hand.
“Mike is a man who I’ve identified a very long time and had a ton of success on this league,” Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury stated Aug. 6, the day after Crabtree labored out for Arizona.
“He is a gifted participant.”
That day, Kingsbury stated “something can occur” when it got here to Crabtree, who obtained a contract supply however not the type of cash he wished from the Cardinals. Monetary phrases on this deal weren’t instantly identified.
Crabtree, who turns 32 subsequent month and might be beginning his 11th season, brings a veteran presence to a comparatively younger receivers room.
PlayerGamesQB Wealthy Campbell7 (sixth total in 1981)RB Larry Stegent7 (eighth total in 1970)QB Kelly Stouffer13 (sixth total in 1987)*QB Artwork Schlichter13 (4th total in 1982)WR Kevin White14 (seventh total in 2015)QB Andre Ware14 (seventh total in 1990)* Sat out 1987 season as a consequence of contract dispute– Elias Sports activities Bureau analysis
Moreover Larry Fitzgerald, who’ll be coming into his 16th season, the next-most-experienced receivers on the Arizona roster are Pharoh Cooper and Damiere Byrd, each of whom have been within the NFL for 4 seasons. In any other case, Arizona has seven gamers of their rookie or second seasons presently on the roster.
White, 27, had recovered from a hamstring harm that pressured him to overlook a couple of week of coaching camp earlier than he was minimize. He was signed to a one-year contract in March with hopes that he’d keep wholesome sufficient to showcase his capability, one thing he was unable to do in 4 seasons with the Chicago Bears, who drafted him No. 7 total out of West Virginia in 2015.
White fractured his left leg in each 2015 and ’16, and his left shoulder in 2017.
He described the previous 4 seasons as “very irritating” however regarded on the Cardinals’ alternative as a “recent begin” to “present what I received.”
White performed in simply 14 video games in 4 seasons with the Bears. That was third fewest by any participant drafted within the prime 10 from 1970 to 2015, White’s draft yr, in keeping with Elias Sports activities Bureau analysis.
White’s manufacturing in his first 4 seasons was the worst amongst extensive receivers, tight ends and working backs drafted within the prime 10 from 2001 via 2015, in keeping with ESPN Stats & Data analysis.