DeAndre Hopkins’ looming suspension might require the Cardinals hanging on to Isabella, but with Hopkins, Hollywood Brown, Rondale Moore, A.J. Green and Antoine Wesley, there isn’t much room for other receivers.
Greg Dortch has played excellent football in camp too, battling for that other spot – if it exists.
“I couldn’t be more impressed with how he’s attacked this camp,” coach Kliff Kingsbury said. “He came in and hasn’t missed one day, runs every route as hard as you can go, takes as many reps as he can and has really produced at a high level this camp. I’m excited to see that hard work pay off for him.”
The game itself wasn’t pretty for the backups in the lineup. Lamar Jackson, like Kyler Murray, did not play. But there’s no way he could have played better than Ravens backup quarterback Tyler Huntley, who threw 14 passes in his two quarters of play and completed 13 of them, for 129 yards and a touchdown.
The Cardinals may not have had many defensive starters in – only linebacker Zaven Collins played out of the anticipated starting lineup, and he was done after a couple of series – but Kingsbury acknowledged he would’ve preferred to see better tackling.
Cardinals third-string quarterback Trace McSorley, again getting the start with Murray and Colt McCoy not playing, struggled against his former team. He threw two interceptions and was flustered much of the game by the Baltimore defense. But McSorley did engineer a TD drive in the fourth quarter, with the plays called by his teammate, Murray.
“There were some times when I passed up (No.) 1 or (No.) 2 in the progression, trying to get something a little farther down the field or trying to make something happen,” McSorley said. “I’ll go back and watch the tape. I’ll judge myself harder than anyone.”
McSorley won’t be judged harder than Isabella has been in his three years, his draft status of being picked before DK Metcalf and overall struggles weighing heavily.
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