It wasn’t that long ago when Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, who retired after the 2009 season, said he considered a return to the NFL. He talked about in 2018 when the Arizona Cardinals signed Sam Bradford and drafted Josh Rosen.
Warner admitted he really did think about it, although there was never any interest from the Cardinals.
“I thought about it,” he said on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM this week. “I actually went out back and started throwing the football.”
At that point, he had already been enshrined in the Hall of Fame and made a member of the Cardinals Ring of Honor.
“I would have definitely considered it had they been interested first and second I really felt I was back in shape to the point to be able to help the team,” Warner continued. “It’s definitely something that wasn’t just throwing it out there haphazardly. It was something I highly considered and probably would have probably explored had they shown interest in doing that.”
He was 46 years old at the time. It probably couldn’t have gone much worse than it did with Bradford and Rosen. They ended up 3-13 and with the No. 1 pick in the draft. Of course, that led to the hiring of Kliff Kingsbury and drafting Kyler Murray, which seem to be positives right now.
It would definitely have been interesting to see a comeback nearly a decade later but, considering the team didn’t even really think it was an option, it probably was simply Warner seeing the state of the position and having that itch to play come back one final time.
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