Arizona’s Will Johnson is projected to make the All-Rookie Team in 2025. The Cardinals face 8 projected top rookies.<\/p>\n
Every team has high hopes for its rookie class. That isn’t changing in 2025, but only a select few will earn All-Rookie honors this year.<\/p>\n
NFL.com’s Gennaro Filice projected which rookies will make the All-Rookie Team. For the Arizona Cardinals<\/a>, cornerback Will Johnson, their second-round pick, is projected to make that unit but not defensive lineman Walter Nolen III, their first-round pick.<\/p>\n But which of these projected top rookies will the Cardinals face this season?<\/p>\n Let’s have a look.<\/p>\n Top offensive rookie opponents<\/p>\n These are the offensive rookies Filice puts in his projected all-rookie team<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Cardinals will see Ward and the Titans a home in Week 5. They will play the Cowboys on the road in Week 9 on Monday night. They face Hunter, Milum and the Jags at home in Week 12.<\/p>\n Top defensive, special teams rookie opponents<\/p>\n These are Flilice’s projected top defensive rookies<\/a> on the Cardinals’ schedule.<\/p>\n EDGE Donovan Ezeiruaku, Dallas CowboysLB Demetrius Knight Jr., Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>S Xavier Watts, Atlanta FalconsKR Chimere Dike, Tennessee Titans<\/p>\n As mentioned in the offensive section, the Cardinals play the Cowboys on the road in Week 9 in prime time and the Titans at home in Week 5.<\/p>\n They face the Falcons in their home finale in Week 16, followed by the Bengals in Cincinnati in Week 17.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona’s Will Johnson is projected to make the All-Rookie Team in 2025. The Cardinals face 8 projected top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[3689,247,265,375,390,2604,228,1327,227,256,230,229,257,3690,7,3688,123,212,125,213,1184,248,267,88,6,245,537,530,1602,2517,9,266,678,3691,526,394,527,2015,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-149772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-arizona","12":"tag-arizona-cardinals","13":"tag-arizonacardinals","14":"tag-bengals","15":"tag-cardinals","16":"tag-cincinnati","17":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","18":"tag-cowboys","19":"tag-dallas","20":"tag-dallas-cowboys","21":"tag-enabled","22":"tag-football","23":"tag-highlights","24":"tag-hunter","25":"tag-jacksonville","26":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","27":"tag-jaguars","28":"tag-listicle","29":"tag-national","30":"tag-national-sports","31":"tag-news","32":"tag-nfl","33":"tag-overall","34":"tag-overall-positive","35":"tag-positive","36":"tag-smg","37":"tag-smg-listicle","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-sports-news","40":"tag-story","41":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","42":"tag-tennessee","43":"tag-tennessee-titans","44":"tag-titans","45":"tag-travis","46":"tag-travis-hunter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149772","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=149772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}