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Draft Selections
Cameron Williams Head Shot
PICK: 14 RND: 1 (ARI)
Cameron Williams
OT Texas
Ashton Gillotte Head Shot
PICK: 45 RND: 2 (ARI)
Ashton Gillotte
DL-EDGE Louisville
Quinn Ewers Head Shot
PICK: 76 RND: 3 (ARI)
Quinn Ewers
QB Texas
Simeon Barrow Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 115 RND: 4 (ARI)
Simeon Barrow Jr.
DL Miami
Barrett Carter Head Shot
PICK: 149 RND: 5 (ARI)
Barrett Carter
LB Clemson
Draft Grade — Cardinals
Overall B-
ValueC NeedA- TradesB- FutureB-
Carter should have been long gone. The Cardinals pounced, and earned a B-.

The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Barrett Carter, Round 5, Pick 12, roughly 67 picks past where he belonged.

Reaching for Barrow Jr. left real value on the table behind him. A whole weekend of picks and wide receiver is somehow still a want.

Good work on the whole, with wide receiver the one box left unchecked.

Pick Analysis
Pick14 Rnd1 Cameron Williams
In the 14th pick they get a plug-and-play piece up front, reach and all. Exactly the need they had to hit.
Pick45 Rnd2 Ashton Gillotte
Ashton Gillotte at Round 2, Pick 13 is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Pick76 Rnd3 Quinn Ewers
Quinn Ewers in the Round 3 slot is the kind of reach that only looks good if he outplays it. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick115 Rnd4 Simeon Barrow Jr.
A wild overpay on Simeon Barrow Jr. in pick 115, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Pick149 Rnd5 Barrett Carter
They robbed the room for Barrett Carter here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.