“I thought in L.A. we had one of the better offensive lines I had ever been a part of and they stayed healthy and were coached really well,” LaFleur said. “I thought they bought into stuff, and by the way they were really talented. Built organically a little bit. There are so many factors how you use those resources.”<\/p>\n
The Cardinals need a guard, but top guard Olaivavega Ioane of Penn State won’t be a top 5 pick and he’ll be gone by mid-first round. Oregon’s Emmanuel Pregnon is a potential second-round pick.<\/p>\n
Barring a trade down \u2013 or even with one \u2013 the Cardinals figure to choose between Mauigoa and Fano at 3 if they take an offensive lineman.<\/p>\n
“This tackle class does not have a Joe Alt- or Rashawn Slater-caliber of a guy we typically see go in those first picks,” ESPN draft analyst Benjamin Solak said. “To me, that dude is not there in this class.<\/p>\n
“If you are going tackle early, I’d like to move back before I do it.”<\/p>\n
That’s exactly how Ossenfort’s first draft played out, trading from 3 to 12 and back to 6, to get Johnson.<\/p>\n
But there might not be many suitors to trade up this year, given the lack of quarterbacks to take. If there was a quarterback to take, the Cardinals would likely be looking there anyway and not necessarily at an offensive lineman.<\/p>\n
In this case, the tackles \u2013 both Fano and Mauigoa project to the right side and played there in college \u2013 do make sense.<\/p>\n
Fano doesn’t necessarily have the bulk as some tackles, listed at 302 pounds on a 6-foot-6 frame, but his athleticism is evident. Mauigoa, at 6-6 and 335, is powerful and had a “flawless” season for the Hurricanes, Miller said.<\/p>\n
“Mauigoa is my No. 5 overall player, so \u2026 premium position, solidify your offensive line,” Miller said. “If there isn’t a quarterback there, why not build the foundation for one? That’s an argument you’re going to hear a lot this year: Set the table for when you do get that quarterback.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I thought in L.A. we had one of the better offensive lines I had ever been a part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,1054,19,1051,7,1053,1052,88,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-783010","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-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-darren-urban","13":"tag-draft","14":"tag-featured-articles","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-home-page-news-headlines","17":"tag-mega-feed","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116150364620330972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783010","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=783010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}