WR Robbie Anderson Traded to Arizona Cardinals; Brown Potentially Out for the Season
Oct 17, 2022, 11:00 AM | Updated: 11:24 am
INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 27: Robby Anderson #11 of the Carolina Panthers during warm up before the game against the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium on September 27, 2020 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
(Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
Out with the old, in with the new as they say.
Disgruntled wide receiver Robbie Anderson has been traded from the Carolina Panthers to Arizona Cardinals Monday, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. The Panthers received a sixth-round pick in 2024, while also giving Arizona a seventh-round pick in 2025 for taking the wideout.
Anderson, 29, has been on the trade block for some time, the tension between him and his former team boiling over Sunday when interim head coach Steve Wilks sent the player to the locker room mid-game. The wideout was seen sitting by himself during Week 6’s contest against the Los Angeles Rams, later getting into arguments with position coaches before being tossed.
Rather than cutting him, Carolina found him a new home in the desert.
He now joins an Arizona Cardinals team that has been lackluster to start the season, currently 2-4 through the first six weeks. Anderson will serve as a replacement for fellow newcomer Marquise Brown, suffering a potential season-ending foot injury in Sunday’s loss.
The Robbie Anderson trade makes a lot of sense. https://t.co/kJMrC4a6Rm
— Nick Cattles (@NickCRadio) October 17, 2022
Anderson has been in the league since 2016, joining the Jets as an undrafted rookie from Temple. His best statistical season came in 2020, reaching over 1,000 receiving yards and 95 receptions with the Panthers.
Now serving as the No.2 option to quarterback Kyler Murray, Anderson will look to right the ship in Glendale.
