Three People Who Need to Step Up If The Cardinals Are To Contend

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Published: September 10, 2009

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... only NFC West champs, but NFC champs in general. However a few departures have left some holes in the Cardinals starting lineups and some key people must fill in to be able to give the Cards a chance to contend with the big boys once again.

We all know about Kurt Warner, Larry Fitzgerald, Anquan Boldin, Karlos Dansby, Adrian Wilson, DRC, and Antrell Rolle, but who are some other X-Factors who are going to have to play a key role for the Cardinals in 2009.

 

1. Tim  Hightower

The departure of Edgerrin James leaves a whole in the running back department for Arizona. They drafted Chris "Beanie" Wells to help mitigate some of this loss, but because he is injury prone it is looking like Hightower will have to carry the majority of the load. 

Here are the stats from last year:

att/ yds/ td/ avg

James: 133/ 514/ 3/ 3.9

Hightower: 143/ 399/ 10/ 2.8

The stat that REALLY jumps off the page for me is ...

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