Quarterback Matt Leinart, former QB of the Arizona Cardinals, has now signed with the Houston Texans for one year. Many media sources claim that the Houston Texans were the first team to contact Leinart following his release from the Cardinals.
Leinart, the 2004 winner of the Heisman Trophy, was originally released and placed on waivers a couple days ago on Saturday by the Arizona Cardinals when he was defeated for the starting position and as the successor of Kurt Warner, who is now retired. He didn’t perform well during the Cardinals pre-season and Leinart claims that he had problems with the Cardinals Coach Ken Whisenhunt. The Cardinals drafted Leinart out of the 2006 NFL Draft in the first round as the 10th overall draft selection.
With the Texans, Leinart has the possibility of gaining a position as backup to Matt Schaub. He’ll compete with Dan Orlovsky for this position provided that he can come in and quickly learn the offense of Gary Kubiak. In the preseason this year, the Texans didn’t see much of a great performance by their backups – Orlovsky didn’t perform well in the Houston Texans final pre-season game and the Texans decided to release John David Booty. Therefore, Leinart will be in a good position to take the backup position if he learns quickly and perform well. For now, though, at the time of his signing, he’ll be third string.
The 27-year-old quarterback finished his career with the Arizona Cardinals 14 touchdowns as well as 20 interceptions and 6 fumbles in his 29 appearances. He also completed 340 of 595 attempted passes for a total of 3,893 yards.
Wednesday will be the first time that Leinart with practice with the Texans at which time they will begin preparing for their regular season opener on Sunday, September 12, at Reliant Stadium against the Indianapolis Colts.
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