CARDINALS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B

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Arizona Cardinals

The Cardinals let Tampa fall and pounced. Final grade: B.

by ryknyse · 2024 NFL Draft · 12 picks · 5 steals · 1 reaches
Value B
Need B+
Trades B-
Future B-

Thirty-one other rooms let T.J. Tampa slide, and the Cardinals were the ones holding the card at slot 66. Highway robbery.

With quarterback, running back and other spots unsolved, spending premium capital on DT-EDGE is the choice that costs them. They punted on quarterback, and it is the miss that keeps the grade honest.

The Frazier reach is the anchor dragging on the value grade.

In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the quarterback spot they never got to.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.4 · Pick 4 · Joe Alt · OT · rank 3
In slot 4 they get a blindside protector. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
R1.26 · Pick 26 · Brian Thomas Jr. · WR · rank 21
In No. 26 they get a weapon on the perimeter at fair value. The biggest hole, addressed.
R2.3 · Pick 35 · Bralen Trice · DE-EDGE · rank 23
The board had Bralen Trice higher than Round 2, Pick 3, and the edge rusher fell to them anyway. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R3.2 · Pick 66 · T.J. Tampa · CB · rank 46
T.J. Tampa in pick No. 66 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. A minor need, but a need all the same.
R3.7 · Pick 71 · Ja'Lynn Polk · WR · rank 56
Ja'Lynn Polk is a better player than pick 71 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R3.26 · Pick 89 · Maason Smith · DT-EDGE · rank 84
A curious use of the Round 3 slot. Quarterback, running back and other spots needed the pick; a DT-EDGE in Maason Smith did not.
R4.4 · Pick 104 · Cooper Beebe · OG · rank 111
Cooper Beebe in the 104th pick is exactly on the number, no argument either way. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R4.33 · Pick 133 · Jaden Hicks · S · rank 126
Jaden Hicks at the 133rd overall pick is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
R5.4 · Pick 140 · Cam Hart · CB · rank 124
Cam Hart at pick 140 is money in the bank, a cornerback taken below his worth. A luxury on a unit that was already in good shape.
R6.13 · Pick 188 · Michael Barrett · LB · rank 191
Michael Barrett at Round 6, Pick 13 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
R7.5 · Pick 225 · Sheridan Jones · CB · rank 213
Value with a capital V on Sheridan Jones in the Round 7 slot, a genuine coup. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.
R7.7 · Pick 227 · Miles Frazier · OG · rank 235
A reach on Miles Frazier in the 227th overall pick; the board had better options right there. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
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