{"id":2609,"date":"2025-04-26T22:50:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/2609\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T22:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:50:03","slug":"cardinals-nab-s-kitan-crawford-with-225th-pick-in-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/2609\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals nab S Kitan Crawford with 225th pick in NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Cardinals selected <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AZCardinals\/status\/1916249348599648688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nevada safety Kitan Crawford<\/a> with the No. 255 pick (seventh round) in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-11, 202-pounder heads to Arizona after his lone season at Nevada where he registered 76 tackles, two interceptions (one returned for a touchdown), seven passes defensed and a forced fumble across 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>Before his time at Nevada, he spent four seasons at Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Kitan Crawford newest addition to the Cardinals safeties room<\/p>\n<p>Safety was among the positions Arizona were pretty set at entering the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Budda Baker, who signed a contract extension last year, and Jalen Thompson figure to resume their starting roles.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s second-year pro Dadrion \u201cRabbit\u201d Taylor-Demerson. Rabbit flashed his violence and physicality as a rookie and should see more snaps come his way in Year 2.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona also has special teams ace Joey Blount as another option in the safeties room.<\/p>\n<p>Who have the Cardinals taken in the 2025 NFL Draft?<\/p>\n<p>Before Crawford landed with Arizona, the franchise took Ole Miss defensive tackle Walter Nolen III with the No. 16 overall pick on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>They came back around on Day 2 and nabbed Michigan cornerback Will Johnson at No. 47 (second round) before selecting Oregon pass rusher Jordan Burch at No. 78 (third round).<\/p>\n<p>Then came Saturday, when Arizona took Ohio State linebacker Cody Simon at No. 115, cornerback Denzel Burke at No. 174 and <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/hayden-conner\/3581936\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas guard Hayden Conner<\/a> at No. 211 before Crawford at No. 225.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tdrake4sports\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Tdrake4sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AZSportsEmail-300x250-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals selected Nevada safety Kitan Crawford with the No. 255 pick (seventh round) in the 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,1632,2604,1327,7,1631,6,1630],"class_list":{"0":"post-2609","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-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-home","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","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=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}