The Facts: While it's certainly easy to project Murray as the starter in Week 1 of the regular season, HC Kilff Kingsbury apparently isn't ready to make that determination. "We'll see," Kingsbury said Wednesday during a guest appearance on The Jim Rome Show. "We're still working through all those things. We have Brett Hundley here -- who we're very excited about -- but we'll see where that kind of goes."
Diehards Line:
Kingsbury's love for Murray was no secret, leading to the team making the quarterback the No. 1 overall pick of the 2019 NFL Draft. Kingsbury's well-documented deep admiration of the rookie continued , where the first-year coach gave high compliments of Murray and emphasized the offense would be built around the signal-caller's skill set. So what have we learned here? As NFL.com's Herbie Teope, it demonstrate that coach-speak is alive and well in early May regardless how the organization feels about Hundley, who joins his third NFL team since entering the league in 2015. Worth noting: GM Steve Keim provided the team's plan during a Monday guest appearance on The Rich Eisen Show when asked directly if Murray would open the regular season as the starter against the Detroit Lions. "Yes," Keim said emphatically. "We didn't draft him [No.] 1 overall to ride the pine. I know it's a lot to put on his back, but that's why we drafted him. ..." Assume that's the outcome until you have better reason not to than Kingsbury's coachspeak