Arizona Cardinals WR Marquise Brown hid trade from new teammate, friend Kyler Murray

TEMPE, Ariz. — For the past week, Marquise «Hollywood» Brown had a secret he couldn't tell one of his closest friends, Kyler Murray: He might get traded to the Arizona Cardinals.

Murray tried to squeeze any tidbit of information out of Brown about the possibility of a trade that would eventually send the wide receiver from the Baltimore Ravens to the Cardinals, even as the two were working out together in Dallas. But as the Ravens tried to figure out a landing spot for Brown, he kept playing dumb with Murray. Whenever Murray tried to summon his inner reporter, Brown always had the same response: «I don't know Kyler. I'm trying to find out.»

But Brown knew all along a trade to Arizona was in the works. Even after it was finalized but before it was made public, Brown still kept it from Murray.

«I could have [told him], but I kind of wanted it to be a surprise for him as well,» Brown said during his introductory news conference in Arizona on Friday. «He knew it possibly could happen, but he didn't know it actually did happen.»

Now the two are reunited for the first time since 2018, when they played together at Oklahoma. It wasn't long after that season that they started discussing the idea of playing together in the NFL. It just took three years to finally happen.

After Murray returned to the green room at the 2019 NFL draft in Nashville, Brown, who was still on the board after falling because of a foot injury, told the quarterback to tell the Cardinals to trade back into the first round to draft him. Murray said he would after the next pick, which the Ravens used to take Brown.

Their NFL reunion was put on ice.

However, it became a possibility again after last season, when Brown asked the Ravens to trade him. Brown told