{"id":820407,"date":"2026-03-19T03:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/820407\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:11:26","slug":"arizona-fan-favorite-wr-signs-up-to-play-for-failed-ex-cardinals-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/820407\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona fan favorite WR signs up to play for failed ex-Cardinals OC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Greg Dortch has signed with the Detroit Lions<\/a> and will play under their new offensive coordinator, Drew Petzing.<\/p>\n

Petzing was the offensive coordinator and playcaller for the Cardinals from 2023-25. Under Petzing, the Cardinals finished with the 24th-ranked scoring offense in 2023, the 12th-ranked scoring offense in 2024 and the 23rd-ranked scoring offense in 2025.<\/p>\n

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Petzing was not in the mix to be brought back by the Cardinals for the 2026 season, and the team replaced him with offensive playcaller\/head coach Mike LaFleur and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett.<\/p>\n

Dortch had his career-best season statistically in 2022, the season before Petzing’s arrival. That season, Dortch grabbed 52 passes and totaled 511 scrimmage yards (receiving plus rushing).<\/p>\n

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He became a favorite among the fan base quickly, replacing injured receiver Rondale Moore for the season’s first three games. Dortch had 20 catches for 198 receiving yards in those three games.<\/p>\n

Under Petzing, Dortch’s best season was 2024 (37 receptions, 373 scrimmage yards).<\/p>\n

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This transaction comes after the Cardinals signed a new No. 3 wide receiver early in the 2026 NFL free agency period, Kendrick Bourne, who played for the San Francisco 49ers in 2025.<\/p>\n

Dortch figures to compete for No. 3 wide receiver snaps for Detroit, behind their top two wideouts Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jameson Williams.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Greg Dortch back with ex-Cardinals offensive coordinator Petzing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Greg Dortch has signed with the Detroit Lions and will play under their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[4566,375,390,2604,1327,113,24101,7,11500,4563,7352,6,12611,13240,8266],"class_list":["post-820407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-cardinals","tag-amon-ra-st-brown","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-arizonacardinals","tag-cardinals","tag-detroit-lions","tag-drew-petzing","tag-football","tag-greg-dortch","tag-jameson-williams","tag-kendrick-bourne","tag-nfl","tag-offensive-coordinator","tag-petzing","tag-rondale-moore"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116253656313785225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820407","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=820407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}