Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray saw his season end prematurely in 2022 when he tore his ACL in December against the New England Patriots. It was the first significant injury in his life.
On the latest episode of “Flight Plan” on the Cardinals’ YouTube channel, Murray went into detail about the experience of how it happened and how he felt immediately afterward.
“I’ve made that cut a million times,” he said. “When something like that happens, you kind of know it’s probably not normal that happened. But I did not know (the extent of the injury). I did not know.”
After the injury happened, he detailed how it was almost like how things appear on TV or movies.
“You know when you see someone get hurt on TV and you see everybody come dap him up and give their love. It was like all that happened in a blur,” he said. “The trainers came up to me. I’m on the ground. I wasn’t in shock. I was just more so, ‘I’ve been hurt before but not like this,’ and I knew something was wrong.
“I had never felt that before and then I was just on my back looking up and everybody was, you know in those movies where you can hear everybody’s voices at one time but it doesn’t sound like one person’s? Everybody was kind of hazed out.
“I was crying once we were carted off the field, and then it all kind of hit me.”
He has come a long way and has his eye on a Week 1 return, although that is a lofty goal.
He had his surgery January 3. Playing in Week 1 would mean a recovery of just over eight months.
But this was the first time he opened up about his injury.
He and others are optimistic about what he can do upon his return. Kevin Murray, his father, said, “The best of Kyler is yet to come.”
That’s what Cardinals fans are hoping for.
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