on the “Big Red Rage.”<\/a><\/p>\nThe conversation about the guard position has been a popular topic, and the Cardinals’ original starter at right guard last season, Will Hernandez, remains available as a free agent — although he is still rehabbing from a torn ACL suffered in Week 5. Adams, however, was a third-round pick in 2024, a choice high enough to hope he’d be ready to slide permanently into the role sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n
There are weeks to go and a whole training camp to play out, but it is Adams in pole position to get that chance.<\/p>\n
“He got thrown a little into a fire last year, and what better way than to get tossed in there,” starting center Hjalte Froholdt said. “Make some mistakes and learn from it.”<\/p>\n
One of the needs for the 6-foot-4, 315-pound Adams was to get stronger, and he said that had been his main goal coming into the offseason. He also wanted to improve his grasp of the playbook.<\/p>\n
“I can feel the strength and I can feel the game slowing down,” Adams said.<\/p>\n
Signing a veteran late into the offseason\/into training camp isn’t unheard of. That could still happen. But with a veteran like that at one guard already — left guard Evan Brown — it feels natural that Monti Ossenfort and Jonathan Gannon would like to fill the other spot with a homegrown, developed draft pick while building the offensive line. Adams is working to be that guy and remain in the place where he spent the final five games last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a four-game stretch midseason as a rookie, the Cardinals made sure to get Isaiah Adams some snaps.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,1054,2874,1051,7,1053,10932,1052,6,8763],"class_list":{"0":"post-127571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-darren-urban","13":"tag-darrens-blog-v2","14":"tag-featured-articles","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-home-page-news-headlines","17":"tag-isaiah-adams","18":"tag-mega-feed","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-will-hernandez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114678100571356349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}