Arizona Cardinals beef up the line on each side of the ball.
Happy Tuesday one and all.
The Arizona Cardinals and the rest of the NFL are getting prepared for the 2025 free agency period, and that will change things.
However, coming out of the 2025 NFL Combine, the NFL Draft complex is dropping their mock drafts based on what they heard and saw over the last week.
Jordan Reid of ESPN dropped a two-round 2025 NFL Mock Draft, here is what he has for the Arizona Cardinals.
16. Arizona Cardinals
Kenneth Grant, DT, Michigan
The Cardinals badly need high-quality starters on their defensive line. Grant steadily improved this season, which was his first in a full-time starting role. He responded well to increased snap counts, playing 30 or more snaps in 10 games in 2024 after doing so only six times in 2023. The 6-foot-3, 332-pound lineman is an explosive wrecking ball of potential. He needs more consistency in his pad level, but the traits are impossible to ignore.
47. Arizona Cardinals
Aireontae Ersery, OT, Minnesota
Will Hernandez is a free agent, and the Cardinals have had a revolving door at right tackle. At 6-foot-5, 339 pounds, Ersery is a physically imposing tackle who is an NFL-ready run blocker. He still needs refinement in pass protection but has the traits to eventually start at left or right tackle. Pairing him with Paris Johnson Jr. provides the Cardinals with two bookend starters.
There probably doesn’t need to be much on Grant, but adding Ersery would be an interesting decision, and before free agency sure makes sense.
Getting a player who can work as a rookie inside or at the right tackle. It would be a fun addition.
What do you think?