CARDINALS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B-

  1. Home
  2. My Stuff
  3. Jason

Jason B-

URL jason-3918

Letter grade with a four-component score, written analysis, and a pick-by-pick breakdown for every selection in this saved mock.

My Mock Drafts →
Grade another draft →
B-

Arizona Cardinals

Good, not great, for the Cardinals: B-.

by Jason214 · 2024 NFL Draft · 13 picks · 3 steals · 4 reaches
Value B-
Need B
Trades B-
Future B-

The Cardinals spent real capital to be 67 picks early on Matthew Jones, and the board is going to hold them to it.

The Thrash value carries more weight than any single miss elsewhere. On the needs board they went 8 of 8, with quarterback the one that mattered most.

Solid rather than spectacular, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.4 · Pick 4 · Kool-Aid McKinstry · CB · rank 10
In slot 4 they get a ballhawk on the outside. More want than need.
R1.17 · Pick 17 · Rome Odunze · WR · rank 13
In the Round 1 slot they get a matchup problem out wide at fair value. The biggest hole, addressed.
R2.4 · Pick 36 · Troy Fautanu · OT · rank 42
No edge and no loss on Troy Fautanu in No. 36; it is a wash and a sensible one. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R3.4 · Pick 68 · Kris Jenkins · DL-EDGE · rank 57
They let Kris Jenkins come to them and pounced at pick 68. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
R3.7 · Pick 71 · Sedrick Van Pran · C · rank 74
Sedrick Van Pran at Round 3, Pick 7 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R3.17 · Pick 81 · TreVeyon Henderson · RB · rank 84
TreVeyon Henderson in pick No. 81 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
R4.4 · Pick 104 · Jordan Travis · QB · rank 138
Jordan Travis at the 104th pick is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
R4.33 · Pick 133 · Junior Colson · LB · rank 120
A tidy bit of business in slot 133, where Junior Colson graded well above the range. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R5.5 · Pick 141 · Ben Sinnott · TE · rank 160
They reached into another round for Ben Sinnott, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. It fills a real need, too.
R5.27 · Pick 163 · T.J. Sanders · DT · rank 181
A big swing on T.J. Sanders at pick 163, well ahead of any board in the building. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
R6.15 · Pick 190 · Jamari Thrash · WR · rank 170
Jamari Thrash at the 190th overall pick is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R7.5 · Pick 225 · Matthew Jones · OG · rank 292
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Matthew Jones well ahead of where he belonged. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R7.6 · Pick 226 · Francisco Mauigoa · LB · rank 225
They paid sticker price for Francisco Mauigoa in Round 7, Pick 6, and that is fine. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
View Full Draft