B-
Arizona Cardinals
The Cardinals kept it disciplined and banked a B-.
by pj_doucette ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 5 picks
· 1 steals
· 4 reaches
Some picks age like wine; Kyle McCord at slot 78 will need to, sitting 44 spots clear of his grade.
A whole weekend of picks and edge rusher is somehow still a want. Harmon at that cost is the sort of edge that compounds over a roster. The trenches got the money picks, top to bottom.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 16th overall pick they get a cornerstone up front, a steep price for the projection. The biggest hole, addressed.
A top-tier interior defensive lineman at a bargain, Derrick Harmon in Round 2, Pick 15, plain and simple. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
They left a pile of value on the table to take Kyle McCord this early at slot 78. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A conviction pick on Shemar Turner at pick 113 that the board grades a round light. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Dont'e Thornton Jr. well ahead of where he belonged. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.