A look at the seven players the Cardinals land in this hypothetical current-player mock draft to starter a team over.<\/p>\n
If every team were to start their rosters over and every player were to enter some sort of reorganizational draft, what would happen, assuming the teams would want to win now?<\/p>\n
Well, NFL.com’s Chad Reuter put together a hypothetical seven-round draft<\/a> where teams would build their team from scratch and the order would be the order of the 2025 NFL draft, but then reversing order every round.<\/p>\n The Cardinals picked in the middle of the rounds, so let’s see who they would land.<\/p>\n NFL building-from-scratch player draft: Arizona Cardinals<\/a>Round 1: QB Trevor LawrenceRound 2: DE Aidan HutchinsonRound 3: WR Nico CollinsRound 4: G Trey SmithRound 5: S Budda BakerRound 6: DL Calais CampbellRound 7: RB Joe MixonAnalysis<\/p>\n This group would be a good start to a team, and they get a couple of current Cardinals in Baker and Campbell. Of course, it ignores a pair of premium positions at tackle and cornerback.<\/p>\n In Round 1, they take Lawrence over quarterbacks C.J. Stroud and Aaron Rodgers. Kyler Murray is selected one pick before, going to the Atlanta Falcons<\/a>.<\/p>\n Offensive tackle Penei Sewell and interior defensive lineman Jalen Carter are drafted soon after Aidan Hutchinson, but considering his impact and motor, he is still a good pick.<\/p>\n In the third round, tackle Trent Williams and tight end Trey McBride. Would you go for Collins instead of them?<\/p>\n In Round 4, Smith isn’t bad, especially since they hadn’t already selected an offensive lineman.<\/p>\n In Round 5, they get Baker, while in Round 6, they take Campbell. Both are Cardinals legends.<\/p>\n Finally, they get a solid running back.<\/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":"A look at the seven players the Cardinals land in this hypothetical current-player mock draft to starter a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1635,1586,6013,1817,247,265,375,390,223,254,1327,7928,224,7,20842,6014,1294,476,4826,4827,1184,7993,2488,248,267,246,88,6,35196,245,264,20301,645,1636,20302,1602,2517,9,266,2340,6042],"class_list":{"0":"post-182330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-aaron","9":"tag-aaron-rodgers","10":"tag-aidan","11":"tag-aidan-hutchinson","12":"tag-american","13":"tag-american-football","14":"tag-arizona","15":"tag-arizona-cardinals","16":"tag-atlanta","17":"tag-atlanta-falcons","18":"tag-cardinals","19":"tag-carter","20":"tag-falcons","21":"tag-football","22":"tag-hub","23":"tag-hutchinson","24":"tag-jalen","25":"tag-jalen-carter","26":"tag-kyler","27":"tag-kyler-murray","28":"tag-listicle","29":"tag-mcbride","30":"tag-murray","31":"tag-national","32":"tag-national-sports","33":"tag-neutral","34":"tag-news","35":"tag-nfl","36":"tag-nfl-hub","37":"tag-overall","38":"tag-overall-neutral","39":"tag-penei","40":"tag-penei-sewell","41":"tag-rodgers","42":"tag-sewell","43":"tag-smg","44":"tag-smg-listicle","45":"tag-sports","46":"tag-sports-news","47":"tag-trey","48":"tag-trey-mcbride"},"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\/182330","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=182330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}