Bruce Arians can see Blaine Gabbert remaining the Arizona Cardinals' starting quarterback next season if Carson Palmer retires.

Palmer is out for the season.

"The way he's playing right now I'd be very, very comfortable," Arians said. 

Gabbert has a 61.1 completion percentage while averaging 249 yards per game.

"I'm really proud of him," Arians said of Gabbert. "These things don't happen. I mean, you hope they don't happen very often when your top two guys go down. But we're very blessed to have him and he has taken the bull by the horns and showing us, 'I'm a player. I can play at this level and play very high.'"

The Arizona Cardinals have announced a one-year contract extension with Larry Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald's contract previously had a voidable year in 2018 for cap purposes, but the new agreement assures the future Hall of Famer will play next season.

He currently ranks sixth in the NFL's all-time receiving list with 15,066 yards. Barring injury, he should finish the season third, behind only Jerry Rice and Terrell Owens.

Larry Fitzgerald caught a 17-yard pass in the fourth quarter on Thursday night to push him past 15,000 receiving yards for his career.

He is just the sixth player to surpass the mark in NFL history and the second-youngest -- behind Jerry Rice.

Fitzgerald finished Arizona's loss to Seattle with 10 receptions for 113 yards.

He now has 15,066 receiving yards for his career, putting him 61 behind No. 5 Tony Gonzalez (15,127), 142 behind No. 4 Isaac Bruce (15,208), 226 behind No. 3 Randy Moss (15,292), 868 behind No. 2 Terrell Owens (15,934) and 7,829 behind No. 1 Jerry Rice (22,895).