{"id":5900,"date":"2025-04-28T03:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/5900\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T03:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:06:09","slug":"espns-schrager-mocks-texas-jahdae-barron-to-the-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/5900\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s Schrager mocks Texas&#8217; Jahdae Barron to the Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN NFL analyst Peter Schrager has the Arizona Cardinals taking Texas defensive back Jahdae Barron with the No. 16 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/draft2025\/story\/_\/id\/44790164\/2025-nfl-mock-draft-peter-schrager-first-round-predictions-32-picks-trades-buzz-qbs-sanders-ward-dart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Schrager<\/a> sees Barron, who won the Jim Thorpe Award in 2024, as the best cornerback in the draft and a fit under head coach Jonathan Gannon.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorpe Award winner is the top corner in this class not named\u00a0Travis Hunter. The Cardinals have been quietly adding premier talent through the draft the past few years. Remember: Head coach Jonathan Gannon is a defensive backs coach by trade. This one makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-11, 200 pound cornerback is coming off a season where he registered 67 tackles, 11 passes defensed, five interceptions and a sack. For his efforts, he was named an All-American and First-Team All-SEC.<\/p>\n<p>In five seasons with the Longhorns, Barron registered 226 tackles, 24 passes defensed, eight interceptions and two sacks.<\/p>\n<p>Barron registered 11 tackles in Texas\u2019 39-31 double-overtime win against Arizona State in the Peach Bowl on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>How many times has Jahdae Barron been mocked to the Cardinals?<\/p>\n<p>Barron has been projected to land with the Cardinals in the first round 15 times in the Arizona Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/nfl-mock-draft-2\/3569611\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mock Draft Tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/draft\/big-board?season=2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PFF<\/a> lists Barron as the second-ranked cornerback, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/draft\/bestavailable\/_\/position\/cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ESPN<\/a> sees him as the third best in the draft.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">texas cb jahdae barron has been mocked to the arizona cardinals quite a few times in recent weeks. <\/p>\n<p>asu safety xavion alford, a close friend of barron\u2019s from when they played together at texas, gave a scouting report on barron and looked toward a potential reunion in the valley: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t0pVeqOecb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/t0pVeqOecb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Damon Allred (@iamdamonallred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamdamonallred\/status\/1912585354684809363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">April 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When does the first round of the NFL Draft begin?<\/p>\n<p>The first round of the 2025 NFL Draft begins on Thursday at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Watch NFL Draft coverage on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Arizona_Sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Arizona Sports YouTube channel.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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":"ESPN NFL analyst Peter Schrager has the Arizona Cardinals taking Texas defensive back Jahdae Barron with the No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5901,"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-5900","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":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114413383576374794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","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=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}