Arizona Cardinals tight end Trey McBride deserves all the praise and accolades that he’s gotten this season.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The Cardinal’s leader in receptions and receiving yards, McBride has broken team and league records this year, and is currently fighting for a spot in the 2025 Pro Bowl Games. He was also named Arizona’s Walter Payton Man of the Year.
A leader both on and off the field, the tight end should be rewarded appropriately. How do you gift one of the top NFL players in his position? With touchdowns.
McBride has caught 89 passes this season and not one has gone for a score. His quarterback, Kyler Murray, vowed that would change on social media.
“85 will touch the end zone soon,” Murray posted.
Kyler promises his TE Trey McBride will score a TD soon ????????
(via @k1) pic.twitter.com/ZNZvtJEDlL
— B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) December 18, 2024
McBride’s 89 receptions are the most without a touchdown in NFL history, surpassing wide receiver Diontae Johnsons’ scoreless 86-catch stretch with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2022. Those catches are also the most by a Cardinal tight end in franchise history, a record set by him last year (81). He has 938 receiving yards this season.
His back-to-back 12-reception games in Week 12 and Week 13 was the first time in NFL history a tight end recorded 12 catches in consecutive games.
Murray’s favorite target isn’t a complete stranger to the end zone this year. He ran a touchdown in on an end-around and pounced on a fumble in the end zone, but that is no consolation for the Cardinals’ No. 1 receiver.
As he gets closer to the 1,000-yard and 100-catch marks with three games remaining in the year, hopefully one of those matches Murray will be able to find him in the end zone.
Cardinals’ offensive leader named Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee
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Reporter Jordyn Bennett covers the Arizona Cardinals, Arizona State and other Phoenix area sports and sports related topics. You can follow him on his X account, @j_bennett_live.
