{"id":840441,"date":"2026-03-29T06:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840441\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:13:44","slug":"arizona-cardinals-2026-nfl-draft-positional-needs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840441\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals 2026 NFL draft positional needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Cardinals 2026 NFL draft positional needs<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/>Jess Root and Seth Cox talk about Ty Simpson and the Cardinals&#8217; positional priorities for the 2026 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>March 25, 2026, 6:12 p.m. MT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The NFL draft is less than a month away, and that means the content on the podcast is changing gears. Cohost Seth Cox and I begin to talk about player needs and fits for the draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">That began in the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/ty-simpson-and-the-cardinals-nfl-draft-need-at-each-position--70882177\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent episode of the podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">We dove into the sudden rise of Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson and discuss the possibility that the Cardinals select him in the draft. We talk possible scenarios of drafting and whether we like those options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After that, we go position by position on the Cardinals&#8217; roster and determine where in the draft they should target talent \u2014 do they have a Round 1 need, or is it a Day 3 situation?<\/p>\n<p>(1:00) Talking Ty Simpson(21:50) Offensive positions and draft priority(34:16) Defensive positions and draft priorityNeed a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Enjoy the show!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 cardswire.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals 2026 NFL draft positional needsJess Root and Seth Cox talk about Ty Simpson and the Cardinals&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,95973,95974,95882,95896,95888,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-840441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","16":"tag-sstsncardinals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagnational-sports","19":"tag-tagnfl","20":"tag-tagoverall-positive","21":"tag-tagsports-news","22":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116310992697551111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840441","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=840441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}