A look 2024 third-round pick Trey Benson and his second-year outlook in 2025<\/p>\n
The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> drafted 12 players in 2024. Some of them had contributions as rookies. Some will have greater roles in 2025. Others will have to battle for the roster.<\/p>\n They selected running back Trey Benson in the third round with the 66th overall pick.<\/p>\n Entering Year 2 in the NFL, let’s have a look at his 2025 outlook.<\/p>\n RB Trey Benson’s 2024 season<\/p>\n Benson started slowly then showed some flashes of why everyone was excited about when he was draft. But then he finished the season injured. He had a 50-yard rushing game and his best game came against the New York Jets<\/a> and had 87 yards from scrimmage, rushing 10 times for 62 yards and catching two passes for 25.<\/p>\n He missed the final three games with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n He finished playing in 13 games, rushing for 291 yards and a touchdown on 4.6 yards per attempt, and he had six receptions for 59 yards.<\/p>\n His role was as the backup to James Conner, coming in to spell him, averaging a little less than five carries a game.<\/p>\n Trey Benson’s Year 2 outlook in 2025<\/p>\n Benson is ready for a bigger role. He added a little weight and is healthy again. He believes he can be more than just a guy to spell Conner for a few plays. He envisions the Cardinals having two RB1s.<\/p>\n Whether that becomes the case where he is pushing his usage to about 15-plus touches again, he is more likely to average about 10-12 touches a game in 2025.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A look 2024 third-round pick Trey Benson and his second-year outlook in 2025 The Arizona Cardinals drafted 12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[247,265,375,390,2604,15439,1327,2622,7,469,757,226,1184,248,267,246,206,255,88,6,245,264,1602,2517,9,266,2340,25211,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-136391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals","12":"tag-arizonacardinals","13":"tag-benson","14":"tag-cardinals","15":"tag-conner","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-james","18":"tag-james-conner","19":"tag-jets","20":"tag-listicle","21":"tag-national","22":"tag-national-sports","23":"tag-neutral","24":"tag-new","25":"tag-new-york-jets","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-nfl","28":"tag-overall","29":"tag-overall-neutral","30":"tag-smg","31":"tag-smg-listicle","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-sports-news","34":"tag-trey","35":"tag-trey-benson","36":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114697442774773499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}