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Best NFC 2025 NFL Draft picks<\/p>\n

USA TODAY’s Tyler Dragon breaks down which teams in the NFC drafted the best this year.<\/p>\n

Sports Seriously<\/p>\n

The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> improved in year two under head coach Jonathan Gannon in 2024. They were in contention for a division title before ultimately finishing 8-9 and third in the NFC West.<\/p>\n

Arizona took a step forward on both sides of the ball in 2024, more so on defense than offense. The Cardinals<\/a>‘ defense jumped from 31st in the league in points allowed to 15th.<\/p>\n

That defense could see more improvement in 2025. Arizona signed the top free agent on defense this offseason in edge rusher Josh Sweat,<\/a> who reunites with his former defensive coordinator Gannon. The two worked together in Philadelphia<\/a> in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n

Arizona signed more reinforcements on the defensive line as well bringing in former Cardinal Calais Campbell<\/a> and fellow veteran Dalvin Tomlinson<\/a>. Quarterback Jacoby Brissett<\/a> signed with the team as well to back up starter Kyler Murray<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was all defense in the Cardinals’ draft class. Arizona selected defensive tackle Walter Nolen<\/a>, edge rusher Jordan Burch<\/a> and cornerback Will Johnson<\/a> in the first three rounds of the draft. They added more reinforcements on Day 3 in linebacker Cody Simon<\/a>, cornerback Denzel Burke<\/a> and safety Kitan Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arizona didn’t lose any notable members of the coaching staff. With these upgrades on defense, the team could contend in the NFC West once again.<\/p>\n

Who are the Cardinals set to play in 2025? Here’s a look at Arizona’s opponents ahead of the NFL’s schedule release.<\/p>\n

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Cardinals 2025 opponents<\/p>\n

Here’s the full list of Cardinals opponents for 2025:<\/p>\n

HomeRoad<\/p>\n

The Cardinals face their NFC West foes twice in 2025 (once each at home and on the road) as is tradition. This year, they face the NFC South and AFC South because of the NFL’s rotating yearly schedule.<\/p>\n

Arizona plays the Packers, Cowboys and Bengals because they all finished third in their respective divisions in 2024.<\/p>\n

When is the 2025 NFL schedule release?<\/p>\n

The NFL will release the 2025 schedule on Wednesday, May 14. All 18 weeks of action for the 32 NFL franchises will be included in that release.<\/p>\n

Fans can expect the schedule release to happen in the evening. Last year’s release happened at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best NFC 2025 NFL Draft picks USA TODAY’s Tyler Dragon breaks down which teams in the NFC drafted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[821,247,265,375,390,2604,11111,4750,4755,1125,1327,868,867,877,321,4748,4753,7,11110,7523,4826,4827,677,679,2488,248,267,88,6,869,245,537,530,9,266,678,4749],"class_list":{"0":"post-25046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-arizona","12":"tag-arizona-cardinals","13":"tag-arizonacardinals","14":"tag-brissett","15":"tag-calais","16":"tag-calais-campbell","17":"tag-campbell","18":"tag-cardinals","19":"tag-commerce","20":"tag-contains","21":"tag-contains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","22":"tag-content","23":"tag-dalvin","24":"tag-dalvin-tomlinson","25":"tag-football","26":"tag-jacoby","27":"tag-jacoby-brissett","28":"tag-kyler","29":"tag-kyler-murray","30":"tag-modular","31":"tag-modular-story","32":"tag-murray","33":"tag-national","34":"tag-national-sports","35":"tag-news","36":"tag-nfl","37":"tag-or","38":"tag-overall","39":"tag-overall-positive","40":"tag-positive","41":"tag-sports","42":"tag-sports-news","43":"tag-story","44":"tag-tomlinson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114453857261028985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25046","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=25046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}