{"id":62819,"date":"2025-05-19T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/62819\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:31:10","slug":"keenan-allen-best-free-agent-fit-for-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/62819\/","title":{"rendered":"Keenan Allen best free agent fit for Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Cardinals spent on heavily defense this offseason, but there\u2019s still free agent talent that could add to offensive improvements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45161231\/2025-nfl-best-team-fits-remaining-free-agents-trades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Matt Bowen<\/a> listed wide receiver Keenan Allen as the best remaining free agent fit for the <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-cardinals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cardinals<\/a>. He noted that while the six-time Pro Bowler is in the late stage of his career, he could be an option to catch first-down passes from Kyler Murray.<\/p>\n<p>Allen isn\u2019t as dynamic of a mover at this late stage of his career, but the 33-year-old showed with Chicago that he\u2019s still a crafty route runner who can make himself available to the quarterback. In Arizona, Allen could carve out a role as a chain-moving option for\u00a0Kyler Murray.<\/p>\n<p>Allen is coming off season with the Chicago Bears where he played 15 games and caught 70 passes for 744 yards and seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Bowen added that Allen could be the third top option for Murray and the offense. The WR3 spot for the Cardinals is a question mark in 2025 following a season where Greg Dortch only played 39% of the snaps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/teams\/crd\/2024-snap-counts.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on offense.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trey McBride and Marvin Harrison Jr. are Murray\u2019s top two targets, so Allen would compete with Zay Jones and Michael Wilson for reps. Despite a heel injury keeping him out of two games in 2024, Allen finished with at least 60 receptions for the eighth straight season.<\/p>\n<p>In 12 NFL seasons with the San Diego\/Los Angeles Chargers and Bears, Allen has caught 974 passes for 11,274 yards and 66 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>How would Keenan Allen look in the Cardinals offense?<\/p>\n<p>Allen led the Bears with seven receiving touchdowns last season and could give Murray another red-zone option.<\/p>\n<p>Allen\u2019s presence could open targets and space for an offense that has not seen a wide receiver register a 1,000 receiving yards in a season since DeAndre Hopkins\u2019 1,407 yards in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Leasure96\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Leasure96<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AZSportsEmail-300x250-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals spent on heavily defense this offseason, but there\u2019s still free agent talent that could add&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,1632,2604,1327,7,1631,6,1630],"class_list":{"0":"post-62819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-home","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114535693457783909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62819","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=62819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}