Arizona is reportedly listening to offers from teams who want to trade up to the 4th overall pick
Within the 2023 NFL Draft, Arizona traded again with the Texans who gave up their 2024 first-round decide. The Cardinals completed 4-13 in 2023 and have the 4th total decide in 2024. Their decide from Houston is the twenty seventh total decide since Houston made it to the divisional spherical.
Nonetheless, the Cardinals are in a wonderful place to have a powerful first-round on this 12 months’s draft. Ian Rapoport of the NFL Community reported that Arizona’s GM is open to taking requires the #4 total decide. Monti Ossenfort is aware of some groups have critical curiosity in buying and selling up and the Cardinals are ready the place they may commerce again.
Will Arizona hand over the #4 total decide within the 2024 NFL Draft?
“There will likely be a giant neon signal that claims ‘open.’ I don’t prefer it blinking, it messes with my eyes, however we’re at all times going to be listening.”
At No. 4, the #AZCardinals GM Monti Ossenfort is open for enterprise on a possible commerce. https://t.co/B65mNRhVNqhttps://t.co/B65mNRhVNq
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 21, 2024
From what the Cardinals have proven, Kyler Murray is their franchise QB. The staff doesn’t want a QB whereas many groups within the first spherical do. That makes Arizona the right accomplice for a possible trade-up. Reportedly, the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants are two groups who may commerce as much as draft J.J. McCarthy at #4. There is also a staff that trades as much as take two-time All-American WR Marvin Harrison Jr.
Mock drafts have Harrison Jr. being taken by the Cardinals at #4. Nevertheless, they do have a decide later within the first spherical and could also be keen to commerce again. The Cardinals have 11 picks within the 2024 Draft. Two within the first, one within the second, and three within the third. That’s a ton of draft capital for Arizona to make use of and construct their roster. In the event that they traded again from the 4th total decide, the Cardinals may nonetheless land a top quality offensive lineman or defensive participant later within the first.
“We’ll at all times have the dialog…if it is smart.”
Monti Ossenfort makes it clear that the Arizona Cardinals are, in actual fact, open for enterprise in relation to buying and selling within the draft. pic.twitter.com/rJfGINNzKS
— PHNX Cardinals (@PHNX_Cardinals) March 20, 2024
Subsequent week, there’s a league assembly in Orlando, Florida. Cardinals’ GM Monti Ossenfort will be capable to communicate with both GM in particular person and get some traction on a doable deal. Arizona may get a critical haul for the 4th total decide if a staff is keen to make the commerce. If not, there’ll nonetheless be an elite participant who will undoubtedly assist the Cardinals in 2024. We’ll have to attend till the tip of April to see what route Arizona goes.