{"id":858016,"date":"2026-04-07T02:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858016\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:53:17","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-top-5-guards-per-draft-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858016\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL draft: Top 5 guards, per Draft Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Arizona Cardinals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Arizona Cardinals&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> addressed the offensive line at guard in free agency, signing Isaac Seumalo to a three-year deal. That doesn&#8217;t mean they will ignore the position in the 2026 NFL draft. They have drafted guards in each of the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>They very well could select a guard as early as Day 2.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Who are the top guards in the 2026 draft?<\/p>\n<p>Draft Wire&#8217;s Curt Popejoy, in his <a href=\"https:\/\/draftwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/draft\/2026\/03\/29\/2026-nfl-draft-updated-offensive-positional-rankings\/89376020007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:offensive positional rankings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;offensive positional rankings&quot;}\" class=\"link \">offensive positional rankings<\/a>, gives us the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Top 5 guard prospects, per Draft Wire<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Chase Bisontis, Texas A&amp;M<\/p>\n<p>One or two will make the first round, so if the Cardinals see one of these guys in Round 3,<\/p>\n<p>Get more <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cardinals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cardinals&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cards;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cards&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cards<\/a> Wire&#8217;s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/27gxR7Oml5yVPywhOG8KHR?si=cGJ0FN6aRBquiLus5nj7rw&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=05e790ef05a641b8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spotify;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Spotify&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL9sICHPD_aT9zxnG7dJj6izJWgMhLMh_U&amp;si=rpNldnLNN-_DdW8R\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;YouTube&quot;}\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-rise-up-see-red-podcast\/id670822447?mt=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple podcasts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Apple podcasts&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/cardswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/cardinals\/2026\/04\/06\/2026-nfl-draft-top-5-guards-per-draft-wire\/89492363007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2026 NFL draft: Top 5 guards, per Draft Wire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;2026 NFL draft&quot;}\" class=\"link \">2026 NFL draft: Top 5 guards, per Draft Wire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals addressed the offensive line at guard in free agency, signing Isaac Seumalo to a three-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,23888,7,4609,34761,29147,9314,6,1482,36794],"class_list":{"0":"post-858016","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-curt-popejoy","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-free-agency","15":"tag-gennings-dunker","16":"tag-guard-prospects","17":"tag-isaac-seumalo","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-offensive-line","20":"tag-positional-rankings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116361167269241393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858016","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=858016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}