![]() All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. Story by Jackson Shover, Steeler Nation Yesterday 12:28 PM. NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League.The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated. Steelers Hakeem Butler May Not Be The Only Former XFL Player Who Has A Legitimate Chance Of Making The 53-Man Roster In 2023. The key for him now is to find better ways to get off of press coverage (pun intended).© 2023 NFL Enterprises LLC. And-when he has the ball in his hands-he can rock and roll over safeties. The dude can get over the top of defenses and he can win his fair share of 50/50 balls. While Hakeem Butler was not able to stick with the Cardinals, at least the most hopeful phrase to describe his talent goes with him to New York or wherever he might land on a team’s practice squad with the chance to prove his doubters wrong. I hope it works out for him because we did enjoy him while he was here.”ĭid you notice Kingsbury’s continued use of the phrase “tremendous upside”? Position: WR 6-6, 219lb (198cm, 99kg) Draft: 4th round, 103rd overall of the 2019 NFL draft by the Arizona Cardinals. WR Hakeem Butler the 1st pick ion Day 3 (Round 4) of the 2019 NFL Draft, at 103, there were plenty of reasons for. It just wasn’t working here and so we allowed him to go somewhere else. This is one Cardinals ’ fan’s guess/assessment. He has a tremendous upside and we still think he can be a really good player in this league. Sometimes it’s better for both sides to have a fresh start, and we felt like that was one of those instances. Kingsbury, who once met wit the Jets himself, said: However, Hakeem Butler met with the Jets yesterday and tried out for them, all with Kliff Kingsbury’s blessings. Pauline is a New York metropolitan pundit and it’s possible that his understanding of the Butler situation had an influence on the Jets’ decision to decline a trade with the Cardinals. In either case, the Cardinals would be wise to find out how Pauline was getting these scoops and put an end to it-that is if they want to be able to trade draft picks like Josh Rosen and Hakeem Butler for optimum value. And then with his report on Butler in 2020 that Butler’s chances of sticking with the Cardinals were very slim. Not sure who Tony Pauline’s Cardinals’ contact is, but Pauline has been right on the money the last two Combines with his Cardinals-related reports-in 2019 he claimed that he heard that Kliff Kingsbury had already indicated that taking Kyler Murray with the #1 pick was a GO. Pauline’s report no doubt created somewhat of a stigma for Butler on a national level to the point where the Cardinals couldn’t even get the WR needy Jets to offer a 7th rounder for him-man, that was rough for both Butler and the Cardinals. ![]() It certainly didn’t help Butler’s cause that draft guru Tony Pauline (Pro Football Network) reported during this year’s NFL Combine that the Cardinals were relieved that they were able to place Hakeem Butler on the IR as a rookie because he was so inconsistent in the 2019 camp to the point where they feared they may have to cut him. To be fair to Hakeem Butler, losing his entire rookie season to injury (fractured hand) was a major setback-and then losing out on not having any OTAs or mini-camps this off-season was also a major deterrent-that-and with the Cardinals adding DeAndre Hopkins via the trade and with Andy Isabella and KeeSean Johnson having learned a great deal how to improve their games after their rookie struggles and coming to camp ahead of the curve this time around, Butler really never had a decent chance to get the number of on the field reps that would allow him to move up the WR ladder in Arizona.
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