Plod Edmonds: ‘Now or Never’ to Fill Cardinals’ RB1 Job No topic James Conner Signing

Plod Edmonds has been awaiting this moment.

The path for him to purchase over as the starting running abet for the Arizona Cardinals is cleared, with the final roadblock in Kenyan Drake cleared after Drake moved on to the Las Vegas Raiders in free company.

That switch came a year after outdated starter David Johnson was as soon as dealt to the Houston Texans. 

“It be now or never,” Edmonds commended Kyle Odegard of the Cardinals’ first payment internet dispute material. “I’ve within the shatter bought my different basically and if truth be told in front of me to salvage a quite tall characteristic in this offense. It be something I have been dying for, praying for, since my first three years within the NFL. It gave the look of it could perhaps well never happen, however I’ve within the shatter bought this probability, and I’ve bought to gain the most of it.”

Edmonds, a fourth-spherical take by the crew out of Fordham in 2018, has began four games in his first three years within the league however appeared in all 16 outings twice. The 25-year-dilapidated had 448 speeding yards to walk with 402 receiving yards and four touchdown catches in 2020, all profession highs. He additionally had a speeding rating. 

The Cardinals appear ready to let him step into the characteristic, regardless of signing outdated Pittsburgh Steeler James Conner in free company. They did now not take out a running abet within the 2021 draft, even with Alabama wide name Najee Harris soundless on hand after they selected at No. 16 overall.

“I’m ready to bustle by method of a rattling wall,” Edmonds acknowledged. “I’m basically ready to illustrate myself legal. Folk don’t know the method unhealthy. I gain what other folks are announcing. I gain the arguments and (expletive), however I basically couldn’t care less. I’m going to walk available and I’m going to ball out this year.”