JJ Watt, a three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, announced Monday that he will join the Arizona Cardinals. He tweeted a photo of himself while lifting weights in a Cardinals shirt.
“source: me,” Watt wrote as the caption to the photo.
Watt reportedly agreed to a two-year deal worth $ 31 million, with $ 23 million guaranteed. Clearly, he received a good payday from his new team, but more decided to join the Cardinals, according to an ESPN report.
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Watt’s former Houston Texans teammate DeAndre Hopkins was traded to Arizona last season, and Watt will reunite with Cardinals defense coordinator Vance Joseph, who coached him in Houston. Watt will join Chandler Jones on the defensive line to form one of the most dangerous tandems in all of football.
The main reason Watt joined the Cardinals is still due to the high ceiling fullback Kyler Murray offered in his third season in 2021, reports ESPN.
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Watt’s “first criteria” when choosing a new team was the “quality of the quarter.” Watt apparently has confidence in the former overall No. 1 pick.
“I was told JJ Watt’s first criteria for selecting the team is the quality of the quarterback, so it looks like it’s an underwriting of @ K1,” ESPN’s Ed Werder tweeted.
Murray was the NFL’s 2019 Offensive Rookie of the Year.
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Last season, the former Oklahoma quarterback completed 67.2 percent of his passes for 3,971 yards and 26 touchdowns with 12 interceptions. Murray added 819 yards on the ground with 11 more scores.
Watt leaves Houston as the long face of the franchise. Compiled by the Texans in 2011, Watt won three NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards from 2012 to 2015. But during his time in Houston, the team won only four of the ten playoff games and was 0-for-4 in divisional title games.
Fox Gay’s Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.