Cardinals prioritize 2024 draft with Texans’ first-round pick, Texans’ and Titans’ third-round picks
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The Cardinals are not expected to be very good in 2023. But they’re positioning themselves for a big rebuild to start in 2024.
Arizona has acquired significant capital in the 2024 NFL draft after a couple of trades they’ve made so far in the 2023 draft.
The big one took place on Thursday night, when the Cardinals and Texans made a trade that resulted in the Cardinals getting the Texans’ first-round pick and third-round pick in 2024. The Texans badly wanted their guy, Alabama pass rusher Will Anderson, and so they paid a fortune to get him.
The Texans aren’t expected to be very good in 2023 either, and it’s entirely possible that the Cardinals will have two Top 5 picks in 2024, their own and the Texans’.
And then on Friday night, the Cardinals added the Titans’ third-round pick in a trade down that allowed the Titans to draft quarterback Will Levis. So the Cardinals have three third-round picks, their own, the Texans’ and the Titans’ and all of those could easily be early in the third round.
The Cardinals are also projected to have a 2024 fourth-round compensatory pick for losing defensive end Zach Allen to the Broncos. So that’s two first-round picks, one second-round pick, three third-round picks and two fourth-round picks for the Cardinals in 2024.
New Cardinals General Manager Monti Ossenfort and head coach Jonathan Gannon have a lot of work ahead of them, taking over a roster that is in rough shape with a quarterback in Kyler Murray whose surgically repaired knee may not be healthy for the start of the season. But they’re loaded in the 2024 draft.
Cardinals prioritize 2024 draft with Texans’ first-round pick, Texans’ and Titans’ third-round picks originally appeared on Pro Football Talk