{"id":776590,"date":"2026-02-26T01:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/776590\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:12:16","slug":"adam-schefter-explains-why-packers-could-be-appealing-for-kyler-murray-tua-tagovailoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/776590\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Schefter explains why Packers could be ‘appealing’ for Kyler Murray, Tua Tagovailoa"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the new league year on the horizon, Kyler Murray<\/a> and Tua Tagovailoa<\/a> find themselves in the rumor mill. The Arizona Cardinals and Miami Dolphins are facing questions about their respective quarterbacks and whether they\u2019ll be staying put in 2026.<\/p>\n

If Murray or Tagovailoa winds up on the move, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter listed a potentially \u201cappealing\u201d landing spot. He suggested the Green Bay Packers be a destination for this coming season.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Packers already have a quarterback in place with Jordan Love<\/a>, but the growing sense is Malik Willis<\/a> will move on via free agency. That means they could be looking for a backup. While that won\u2019t provide the starting opportunity Murray or Tagovailoa likely want, Schefter said a \u201creset\u201d year could help either player in the long run.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I were a guy like Kyler Murray or Tua Tagovailoa, Green Bay would be appealing to me,\u201d Schefter said on ESPN Milwaukee<\/a>. \u201cYou\u2019re with a good organization in a good system with good, talented players. You take a year to kind of reset yourself and decompress and learn and see things from a different perspective. There are worse places to wind up than Green Bay, for one of those guys.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, again, I\u2019m sure those guys are going to want to play and start, and that\u2019s not the case in Green Bay. But if they can\u2019t get that opportunity, you\u2019d think a place like Green Bay would be very attractive to a lot of these guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Kyler Murray, Tua Tagoavailoa\u2019s futures<\/p>\n

Both Kyler Murray and Tua Tagovailoa found themselves on the sideline to end the 2025 season. Murray suffered a foot injury and later missed the rest of the year. Miami opted to give Quinn Ewers<\/a> some run late in the year and moved Tagovailoa to the bench.<\/p>\n

The two quarterbacks also carry significant salary cap hits. Moving on from Murray would cost the Cardinals $52.7 million in dead cap money, according to Spotrac<\/a>. Tagovailoa has a $56.3 million dead cap hit in 2026, per Spotrac<\/a>, though his deal has a potential out in 2027. Both figures rank in the Top 10<\/a> among NFL players.<\/p>\n

New Dolphins general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan said this week at the NFL Scouting Combine that \u201ceverything\u2019s on the table<\/a>\u201d regarding Tagovailoa. As for Murray, FOX Sports\u2019 Henry McKenna reported he prefers the Cardinals release him<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the new league year on the horizon, Kyler Murray and Tua Tagovailoa find themselves in the rumor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,7,73323,6,42350],"class_list":{"0":"post-776590","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-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-kyler-murray-15-allen","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-tua-tagovailoa-17-st-louis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776590","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=776590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}