It has been only a little more than a week since the first round of the 2025 NFL draft and someone is already redrafting the first round?<\/p>\n
Yes, that is the case.<\/p>\n
Curt Popejoy redrafted the first round<\/a> for sister site Draft Wire and made a few small changes.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n For the Arizona Cardinals<\/a>, the position remained the same, but the player was different.<\/p>\n In the actual draft, they got defensive tackle Walter Nolen with the 16th overall pick. He was the third defensive tackle taken after Mason Graham to the Cleveland Browns<\/a> fifth overall and Kenneth Grant to the Miami Dolphins<\/a> at pick No. 13.<\/p>\n Popejoy does not have the Dolphins taking Grant, which means he is on the board with the 16th pick.<\/p>\n He would have the Cardinals take Grant.<\/p>\n Grant is bigger than Nolen at 6-4 and 331 pounds, compared to Nolen’s 6-3 and 296 pounds.<\/p>\n Both are athletic.<\/p>\n Grant, despite being huge and athletic, didn’t grade out as well against the run in college. Nolen is great at both the run and the pass.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Maybe the Cardinals had a higher grade on Grant. However, the way head coach Jonathan Gannon has gushed about Nolen since he was drafted, I would doubt it.<\/p>\n Grant probably will play mostly nose tackle in the NFL. Nolen will likely be asked to do more.<\/p>\n Based on what we have heard, if it wasn’t Nolen, it would have probably been Oregon’s Derrick Harmon, who went 21st overall to the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Would you have rather had the Cardinals land Grant or Nolen?<\/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