MURRAY WATCH

In recognition of the intrigue surrounding rookie quarterback Kyler Murray, the Cardinals’ No.1 overall pick in this year’s draft, azcentral sports offers a daily update, when applicable, of his performance during training camp.

Monday’s highlights: With players only wearing helmets and no pads, much of practice seemed to be at about half speed. Murray started a little slow, too, although he picked things up as the afternoon session continued. A couple negative moments included rolling out and right into the path of hard-charging linebacker Zeke Turner while the offense was operating inside its own 5-yard line. There was no contact, but if it was a game, Murray would have been flattened. In more 11-on-11 drills, Murray underthrew Larry Fitzgerald on a go route and Josh Shaw picked him off. On the plus side were crisp and quickly thrown balls to KeeSean Johnson, Damiere Byrd and David Johnson.

Snapshot: Murray avoided big hits and injuries at Oklahoma and Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury said the 5-foot-10 speedy quarterback should be able to do the same at the NFL level.

"He’s really, really quick," Kingsbury said. "It's a smaller surface than guys are used to seeing back there, so it's a tough combination. His short-range quickness is as good as I’ve ever seen. I think people will have a hard time getting their hands on him."

He said it: "Right now, we’re not really game-planning for other defenses so once we start that, different personnel is probably going to touch the field a lot more. Right now, they don’t touch the field as often as they’d probably like to. So yeah, it’s kind of tough. It is kind of tough. I feel for them." – Murray when asked if he feels for his tight ends, who rarely get quality practice reps during 11-on-11 team work because the offense is using so much four- and five-wide receivers sets.