It is NFL draft season and that means information and misinformation will come from many sources. We will hear reports of teams and their interest in different players.
The Arizona Cardinals have the eighth overall pick in this year’s draft and they could target an offensive lineman. Based on many mock drafts, if they do, they very possibly will be the second team drafting a lineman. The other could be the New York Giants, who pick fourth overall.
A player connected to the Cardinals in many mock drafts is Iowa tackle Tristan Wirfs. Most do not rate him as the best tackle in the draft, but according to a report from SNY’s Ralph Vacchiano, the Giants are very high on Wirfs.
In fact, the Giants already “love” Iowa tackle Tristan Wirfs, according to an NFL source familiar with the Giants thinking, and they have expressed similar interest in Alabama’s Jedrick Wills. Both of them are widely considered among the top four offensive line prospects in this year’s class, and they will get a good look from the entire league at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis next week.
It is far too early to know whether either of them would interest the Giants enough to draft them with the fourth overall pick. Right now, the NFL consensus seems to have Wirfs and Wills in a four-man group at the top of the offensive line charts, with Georgia’s Andrew Thomas and Louisville’s Mekhi Becton. Which order they will eventually land in depends, for now, on who is asked.
If the Cardinals decide to go with a lineman with the eighth pick overall, if the Giants end up liking Wirfs more than others, there is the potential that the Cardinals could select Louisville’s Mekhi Becton, whom NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah calls “an absolute freak.”
The NFL combine begins this week and so player rankings could change.
Cardinals fans will want to keep an eye on the Giants leading up to the draft because their pick could affect what direction the Cardinals go with the eighth pick.
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