Report: Arizona Cardinals to waive cornerback Trayvon Mullen

Not even 24 hours after their defeat to the New England Patriots on Monday Night Football, the Arizona Cardinals are moving on from cornerback Trayvon Mullen. According to NFL Network’s Mike Gruffalo, Arizona has elected to waive Mullen Tuesday afternoon.

The Cardinals traded for the former Clemson Tigers star in August, just before the start of the season. In exchange, the Raiders received a conditional seventh-round pick from Arizona. If Mullen would have played in two more games and the season for Arizona, that seventh-round pick would have jumped to a sixth-rounder.

Mullen, a two-time College Football Playoff national champion with Clemson in 2016 and 2018 and one-time CFP defensive MVP, was selected by the Las Vegas Raiders in the 2019 NFL Draft. He spent the first three years of his NFL career with the Raiders but was limited due to a series of injuries in his final season with the team.

Arizona’s Kyler Murray suffers season-ending ACL tear

Arizona QB Kyler Murray went out very early during the Cardinal’s 27-13 loss on Monday Night Football to the New England Patriots with a non-contact injury. Now, his season is over as it is now official that the injury was a tear to his ACL.

Murray was carted off the field following his third snap of the game where he suffered the injury. There was ‘little doubt’ that the injury was a torn ACL last night, but today’s MRI on the former No. 1 pick in 2019 confirmed the franchise’s worst fear.

Murray was in the middle of his fourth NFL season after coming out of Oklahoma as a Heisman winner. He had thrown for 11,840 yards and 70 touchdowns to go along with 1,786 rushing yards and 20 rushing touchdowns over his first three seasons. That production had earned Murray a pair of Pro Bowl appearances in 2020 and 2021 after being AP Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2019.

In 2022, he had totaled 2,786 total yards and 17 touchdowns overall for a now 4-9 Arizona team.