The Arizona Cardinals added quarterback Trace McSorley to their 53-man roster last season, signing him off the practice squad of the Baltimore Ravens. When they did so, they actually accommodated the Ravens a bit when they were short on quarterbacks on the roster.
McSorley explained the scenario on the Breneman Shows Up show on YouTube.
“As we were practicing that week in Baltimore, that was the week Lamar was sick,” he said. “It kept him out Wednesday and he was still feeling sick on Thursday, so I was basically the No. 2 that whole week. There was a chance I was going to be elevated.”
Jackson was feeling better Friday and practiced and that was when he learned the Cardinals signed him. He got a text from his agent letting him know.
The Ravens wanted to keep him but could not make the numbers work to sign him to the active roster, so he was going to be a Cardinal.
The Ravens, though, had a favor to ask.
“We need you to hang around,” McSorley recalled. ‘If Arizona is cool with it, you hang around till Sunday and still travel with the team. If (Jackson) wakes up Sunday and isn’t feeling good, you will be elevated.”
The Cardinals were willing to let McSorley stick around, as they were traveling that week anyway and had already wrapped up the week of practice.
Jackson woke up Sunday “sick as a dog,” McSorley explained.
“I suited up Sunday, had a flight out Monday morning to Arizona.”
So the Cardinals ended up helping the Ravens out a little bit. Perhaps that willingness to help them out was useful in trade negotiations before the deal to land receiver Hollywood Brown.
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