B-
Arizona Cardinals
McCord should have been long gone. The Cardinals pounced, and earned a B-.
by FootBall365 ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 5 picks
· 2 steals
· 1 reaches
The Cardinals spent the weekend waiting on one name, and it fell: Kyle McCord, the No. 125 name on the board, in slot 153.
They will regret leaving edge rusher for another day if the season turns on it. Stutsman has a lot of ground to make up just to look fairly priced.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick No. 16 they get a ballhawk on the outside. Need was not the driver here.
Jonah Savaiinaea in slot 47 is fair value, right on his grade. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
They paid a round early for Danny Stutsman in No. 78, more than the board wanted. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Jaylin Noel at the 114th pick is the proof. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
You do not let a quarterback like Kyle McCord reach the Round 5 slot and blink. They did not. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.