Yahoo Sports host Andrew Siciliano, senior NFL writer Charles Robinson and senior betting analyst Ben Fawkes discuss if the Arizona Cardinals will actually draft RB Jeremiyah Love at number three. Check out the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
View more
Advertisement
Video Transcript
When Adam came out and talked about Jeremiah Levitt III to the Cardinals, the first thing I thought about is, well, okay.
The Cardinals general manager who remained after the changes, obviously in the staff this offseason, is Monte Ossenfort.
Monte Ossenfort was in the Tennessee Titans building, used to be a Tennessee Titans executive.
It made me wonder, and I think we should all wonder, honestly, if I’m being real here, we need to be very careful.
It made me wonder if Monte Ossenfort is sitting there and going, feel like the Titans are taking Levitt IV, and maybe we can get somebody to slide up to III.
Advertisement
Maybe we can interest a team in hopping the Tennessee Titans if we just send out this idea that, hey, guess what?
We’re interested in Jeremiah Levitt, and maybe we can induce the Tennessee Titans to go, ah, wait a minute.
Man, that’s the guy.
That’s our guy we settled on.
He’s the number one player on our board.
You know, we feel like we’re going to take him at four.
All of a sudden, are the Cardinals going to take him at three?
Are they trying to induce someone else to take him at three?
Maybe we can induce the Titans to, you know, produce some kind of a flip-flop with the third and fourth overall pick.
Advertisement
I don’t, it’s, I think there is an element here of gamesmanship where on a Monday, all of a sudden the third pick in the draft becomes this running back who would suddenly be, you know, rookie contracts are guaranteed $50 million at the number three overall, 50 million plus at number three overall for Jeremiah Levitt.
I just, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Monte Ossenfort is the general manager of the Arizona Cardinals, spent all that time in the Titans franchise, and certainly there has been, now the Titans have been connected to a lot of players, let’s be honest, but certainly Love has come up in the last, you know, seven to 10 days with the Titans being connected there as well.
It feels like a little okey-doke early in the season, you know, the week before the draft kicks off to try and see if someone’s induced, whether it’s the Titans or anyone else, to slide up to three to take Jeremiah Love, and I will, I think Adam has spoken to it.
I think other people have spoken to it.
Advertisement
If you break down how boards are right now, there are teams, and most of them won’t be in position to draft Jeremiah Love, but there are a number of teams that look at Jeremiah Love as being the number one overall player on their board.
So listen, if that’s the lucrative, you know, piece that you have sitting there and you’re not necessarily going to take him at three, it does nothing but help you on a Monday to put it out there that maybe we’ll take Love.
If you want Love, give us a call.
You know, we got a couple of days before the draft kicks off.