B-
Arizona Cardinals
Carter should have been long gone. The Cardinals pounced, and earned a B-.
by Xander ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 5 picks
· 1 steals
· 4 reaches
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-by-Pick
In the 14th pick they get a plug-and-play piece up front, reach and all. Exactly the need they had to hit.
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.
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.
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.
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.