Defensive Tackle · Arizona Cardinals

Kaleb Proctor

No. 94

Kaleb Proctor's rookie season is over before it started

There is no soft way to say it: Kaleb Proctor will not play a single game in his first NFL season.

Proctor came to the Arizona Cardinals as a fourth-round pick — which means someone in that building believed in him enough to spend a draft selection on him, and he had every reason to believe this year would be the beginning of something. Rookies drafted in the fourth round do not arrive with guaranteed starting spots, but they arrive with real purpose: prove you belong.

Instead, Proctor has been placed on injured reserve, a designation that ends his participation for the entire season. The year he spent working toward is now a waiting game.

That is the particular cruelty of a rookie year cut short — no film to build on, no moments to point to, no sense of where he actually stands. Everything he came here to answer gets pushed to next year.

The question now is what kind of player shows up when he does.

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