{"id":67957,"date":"2026-03-03T18:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/cardinals-to-release-former-no-1-overall-pick-kyler-murray-with-qb-still-owed-36-8m\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:03:37","slug":"cardinals-to-release-former-no-1-overall-pick-kyler-murray-with-qb-still-owed-36-8m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/cardinals-to-release-former-no-1-overall-pick-kyler-murray-with-qb-still-owed-36-8m\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals to release former No 1 overall pick Kyler Murray with QB still owed $36.8m"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Player showed glimpses of genius but was uneven<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>28-year-old played in playoffs once with Arizona<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Arizona Cardinals have informed former No 1 overall pick Kyler Murray that they plan to release him at the beginning of the new league year on 11 March, a person familiar with the decision told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The quarterback, who is owed $36.8m in guaranteed money in 2026, will be free to sign with another team once he\u2019s released.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/03\/cardinals-to-release-former-no-1-overall-pick-kyler-murray-with-qb-still-owed-368m\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Player showed glimpses of genius but was uneven 28-year-old played in playoffs once with Arizona The Arizona Cardinals have informed former No 1 overall pick Kyler Murray that they plan to release him at the beginning of the new league year on 11 March, a person familiar with the decision told the Associated Press. The &#8230; <a title=\"Cardinals to release former No 1 overall pick Kyler Murray with QB still owed $36.8m\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/cardinals-to-release-former-no-1-overall-pick-kyler-murray-with-qb-still-owed-36-8m\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cardinals to release former No 1 overall pick Kyler Murray with QB still owed $36.8m\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}