Person of Interest: Arizona’s Ryan Lindley

Vitals

• Position: In-case-of-emergency-break-glass-QB
• Age: 25
• Height: 6-3
• Weight: 232
• Experience: 3rd year

The storyline

He’s a quarterback who has been mentioned in the same sentence with Russell Wilson and Andrew Luck.

Kind of.

Ryan Lindley was chosen in the same draft as those two quarterbacks along with Robert Griffin III and Nick Foles. A sixth-round pick, Lindley even started four games as a rookie, but that was also under head coach Ken Whisenhunt in a year the Cardinals went 5-11.

Since then, the Cardinals hired Bruce Arians as head coach, acquired Carson Palmer in a trade, signed Drew Stanton to be his backup and this year drafted Logan Thomas from Virginia Tech.

In fact, Lindley was let go by Arizona earlier this year and wound up on the Chargers’ practice squad until the Cardinals re-signed him after Palmer suffered a season-ending knee injury.

The statement

It has been a pass-fail situation for Lindley in the three years he has been in the NFL.

Namely, in 181 pass attempts in the NFL Lindley has failed to throw a touchdown pass. It’s the most pass attempts ever for an NFL player to start his career without a touchdown pass. In fact, it’s only 50 pass attempts away from the NFL record for most consecutive pass attempts without a touchdown throw.

But don’t expect the Cardinals to change their offense just because they’re down to the No. 3 quarterback on the depth chart.

“We’re not going to change what we do,” coach Bruce Arians said. “Ryan, I really like Ryan. I love how he prepares. He played in a game last week, I thought very efficient for us, in a situation where he didn’t get in practice, but he obviously prepared himself extremely well.”

That’s certainly what the Seahawks are preparing for.

“He’s a big, strong-armed guy,” Carroll said of Lindley, “and he has been around enough. They’re going to stay very much like they’ve been. They’re very much on the attack in the throwing game, and when he came in, they didn’t change that so we expect to see the same.”

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