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POLL: Grade the re-signing of QB David Blough

He returns for a second season after two starts late in the year.

The Arizona Cardinals appear to have their veteran quarterback quota filled on their roster with the return of David Blough.

Signed late in the season after quarterback Kyler Murray tore his ACL, he started two games to end the season when backup Colt McCoy was also out.

He returns on a one-year deal worth slightly more than the league minimum, and they get some cap relief from it as it qualifies for the veteran benefit.

He will compete with Colt McCoy for the backup spot on the roster and potential starter to begin the season if Murray must miss games.

After the talk of Jacoby Brissett, Marcus Mariota, Case Keenum and Teddy Bridgewater, it is Blough they sign.

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Contract details for QB David Blough

Blough returns on a one-year contract for a little more than the league minimum.

The Arizona Cardinals re-signed quarterback David Blough to a one-year contract. Originally, he was set to be a restricted free agent but the Cardinals non-tendered him, declining to offer him a $2.67 million tender that would have allowed them to match any offer from another team.

His new contract receives the veteran benefit for the salary cap, according to Over the Cap.

His one-year deal is worth the league minimum of $1.08 million in salary. He receives a signing bonus of $76,250 and an guaranteed roster bonus of $76,250. That is likely tied to him making the 53-man roster.

In all, the total comes to a little more than $1.23 million, but it will count less than that against the salary cap. It qualifies for the veteran benefit, with a cap hit of almost $1.02 million. They receive cap savings of more than $216,000.

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Cardinals non-tender QB David Blough, WR Antoine Wesley

Both are now unrestricted free agents.

The Arizona Cardinals had a pair of players who were restricted free agents, had the Cardinals used a qualifying tender on either.

However, the Cardinals elected not to extend either quarterback David Blough or wide receiver Antoine Wesley a restricted free agent tender.

They now are unrestricted free agents.

Wesley did not play last season as he was on injured reserve. He caught 19 passes and scored three touchdowns in 2021.

Blough was a late-season addition last year and started two games to end the year.

Teams can use a first-round tender to keep a restricted free agent. It pays the player $6.005 million. The player can negotiate deals elsewhere but the original team can match the offer and, if the offering team is allowed to sign him, the original team would get a first-round pick as compensation.

There is a second-round tender at $4.304 million, an original-round tender at $2.743 million and a right-of-first-refusal tender at $2.627 million.

In all cases the original team can match the offer of another team.

Neither Wesley nor Blough figure to be major parts of the 2023 season, so paying them that much didn’t make sense.

They still can re-sign with the Cardinals or sign elsewhere without restriction.

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Cardinals shut down Colt McCoy; David Blough to start vs. 49ers

The Cardinals protect McCoy for next season to potentially start 2023 as the starter and give Blough a second look, now against the 49ers.

Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury said on Monday that he and the staff would decide on a starting quarterback for the season finale against the San Francisco 49ers on Wednesday. He has announced that starter.

David Blough, who started in the Cardinals’ 20-19 loss to the Atlanta Falcons, will start in Week 18 against the Niners.

Why not Colt McCoy?

“(We’re) basically shutting him down for the season,” Kingsbury said Wednesday. “We need him next year, particularly with the situation we have currently with Kyler (Murray), so we’ll let David have at it and see how it goes.”

McCoy wanted to play. At his age, he knows he doesn’t have many opportunities. However, the team needs outweighed his desire to play the finale.

“It’s just in our situation with, like I said, the impending (probability of) not having Kyler to start the year, it’s the right thing to do,” Kingsbury said.

As for Blough, Kingsbury gets to evaluate him on a full week. He only got one day of reps to prepare for the Falcons.

“I want to see what he can do (with) the full process and see kind of how he plays against a really good defense.”

The 49ers have the league’s best defense. We will see if he can do anything.

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Ex-Lions QB David Blough will start for the Cardinals in Week 17

Ex-Lions QB David Blough will start for the Cardinals in Week 17

For a team that hasn’t invested hardly any assets at the backup quarterback position for the last several years, former Detroit Lions backups are sprouting up in starting roles around the league in Week 17.

Josh Dobbs earned the start for the Tennessee Titans on Thursday night, just eight days after that team signed Dobbs off the Lions’ practice squad. Dobbs played capably in the Titans’ loss to the Cowboys for it being his first start and the team missing four regular offensive starters, including All-Pro RB Derrick Henry.

Now it’s David Blough’s turn to step into a starting role. On Friday, Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury ruled out Colt McCoy with a concussion. With regular starter Kyler Murray out for the year with injury, the starting role now falls to Blough.

Blough was with the Lions from 2019 through the end of Detroit’s training camp. He was released during the final roster cutdown phase and wound up in Minnesota. The cardinals signed him off the Vikings practice squad when Murray was injured, and now Blough will get the start.

Blough started five games for the Lions in his rookie season after Matthew Stafford broke his back. The Lions lost all five games. Blough has not played meaningful reps since that time. He’ll lead the 4-11 Cardinals against the 5-10 Atlanta Falcons in Week 17.

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Cardinals turn to another starting QB, David Blough

David Blough is next man up as the starting QB for the Arizona Cardinals

The Arizona Cardinals have had their own quarterback carousel in 2022.

From Kyler Murray to Colt McCoy to Trace McSorley and now, David Blough, will have started games for the NFC West also-rans,

McCoy was on track to start Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons but woke up Friday with continued concussion symptoms. Hence, the move to Blough.

Blough is 0-5 as an NFL starter, losing all those games in 2019 with the Detroit Lions.

He has not thrown a pass in an NFL game since 2020.

David Blough to start at QB for Cardinals vs. Falcons

Colt McCoy suffered concussion symptoms after practicing Thursday. Blough will start instead of Trace McSorley.

There has been a change in plans for the Arizona Cardinals this week. Quarterback Colt McCoy returned to practice after clearing concussion protocols and was slated to start against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.

That will not happen. David Blough, signed last week, will make the start at quarterback, head coach Kliff Kingsbury told reporters Friday after practice.

McCoy was not present at the open part of practice Friday after being a full participant both Wednesday and Thursday. Kingsbury said McCoy experienced concussion symptoms and ruled him out for the game.

It will be Blough who starts instead of Trace McSorley, who made his first NFL start on Sunday in the Cardinals’ 19-16 overtime loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Blough made five starts for the Detroit Lions in 2019. They lost all five of those games.

Blough, in seven career appearances, has completed 54.3% of his passes for 1,033 yards, fourth touchdowns and seven interceptions.

He will be the fourth quarterback to start for the Cardinals this season.

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Vikings’ practice squad QB David Blough signed by Arizona Cardinals

The former Lions quarterback has five starts in his career

During the preseason, the Minnesota Vikings had some quarterback issues. They initially went into training camp with Kellen Mond and Sean Mannion but it became evident that they couldn’t roll into the season with those two behind starter Kirk Cousins.

Before the season started, they traded for Nick Mullens to be the backup quarterback and signed David Blough to the practice squad as extra depth. He had appeared in seven games with five starts and threw for 1,033 yards with four touchdowns and seven interceptions.

With Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray suffering a season-ending torn ACL on Monday night, they signed Blough off of the Vikings practice squad to provide depth behind Colt McCoy for the rest of the season. They had recently signed Carson Strong to the practice squad. He ran the true Air Raid while at Nevada and will translate well to what the Cardinals run in Arizona.

With the move, the Vikings now have an open spot on their practice squad.

T.J. Hockenson has excellent debut for the Vikings

You couldn’t have asked for a better debut from the new Vikings tight end

The Minnesota Vikings made a massive trade at the deadline on Tuesday when they traded for T.J. Hockenson. The move was both a win-now move and a long-term play.

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Early in the week, the expectation was that Hockenson would be ready to go full throttle next week against the Buffalo Bills but they got him up to speed.

They said on the broadcast that former Detroit Lions and current Vikings practice squad quarterback David Blough helped get Hockenson up to speed. They got to work that night at 10 o’clock and it paid dividends on Sunday.

Hockenson was targeted nine times against the Commanders. He caught them all and gained 70 yards, including catching six first downs. This was the best tight end performance the Vikings have had since 2018.

He wasn’t just great through the air but also in the running game. He helped open up holes for Dalvin Cook and was the inline threat with blocking ability that the Vikings need for this offense.

This was also great for Hockenson. The Detroit Lions won six games in his rookie season and never topped that. Now, Hockenson is on a team with seven wins in their first eight games.

With a performance like this after being with the team for just five full days, imagine how good he will be after consistent practice time.

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Ben Johnson downplays any worries about ex-Lions QB David Blough helping the Vikings

Johnson even suggested the Lions could use Blough’s knowledge against the Vikings as a kind of honeypot.

It’s a focal point for a lot of pundits and fans, no doubt about it. When a quarterback leaves one team and joins a foe, the worries about the ex revealing the playbook or intricacies of the offense become a major talking point.

That’s certainly the case for the Detroit Lions this week. Longtime QB David Blough opted to sign on with the Minnesota Vikings practice squad after the Lions unceremoniously dumped him the morning after the roster cutdown to 53 players. Blough and the Vikings are on the docket this week, and there is considerable consternation about how much he can aid his new team against his old one.

That consternation is not shared by the man in charge of the Lions offense, however. Coordinator Ben Johnson downplayed any concerns about Blough being a real asset for the Vikings in terms of knowledge or game prep.

“We’re like every other team in this league,” Johnson told reporters prior to Thursday’s practice. “Everyone steals plays from each other, so I don’t think anything we’re doing is necessarily revolutionary. There are some things David might know situationally about us that – well we also know what he knows. So, we are calculated in how we respond to that. But yeah, I mean there are a couple things that we’ll address. Other than that though, like once again they – we’re not going to overthink things from that regard.”

Johnson turning the talking point on its head and suggesting that the Lions could use Blough’s perceived knowledge about the Detroit offense as a weapon of deception, is an excellent point and one that should quiet the misplaced fears of impending catastrophe.

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