{"id":696845,"date":"2026-01-22T17:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/696845\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:49:12","slug":"mel-kiper-mock-draft-arizona-cardinals-beef-up-offensive-line-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/696845\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Kiper mock draft: Arizona Cardinals beef up offensive line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Francis Mauigoa, OT, Miami<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Mauigoa would have just missed the chance to join his brother, linebacker Kiko Mauigoa, with the Jets, but I still have Francis as a top-three pick thanks to his mauling play style, experience (41 career starts) and overall consistency as a blocker. Since Kelvin Beachum is a free agent, Mauigoa could slide in at right tackle and help spring James Conner and Trey Benson for big runs next season. The quarterback situation is still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47519672\/will-kyler-murray-follow-jonathan-gannon-arizona-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unsettled<\/a>, but no matter who is under center, the protection has to be right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francis Mauigoa, OT, Miami Mauigoa would have just missed the chance to join his brother, linebacker Kiko Mauigoa,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,82781,2757,2604,1327,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-696845","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-cardinals-mock-drafts","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals-draft","12":"tag-arizonacardinals","13":"tag-cardinals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115940017114919281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696845","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=696845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}