{"id":859945,"date":"2026-04-08T00:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859945\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:45:27","slug":"cardinals-host-draft-prospects-zavion-thomas-austin-barber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859945\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals host draft prospects Zavion Thomas, Austin Barber"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Cardinals scheduled <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/reggie-virgil\/3617048\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">top 30 visits<\/a> with LSU wide receiver Zavion Thomas and Florida offensive tackle Austin Barber.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Tdrake4sports\/status\/2041648005317812231?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted<\/a> his visit on Instagram. Barber, meanwhile, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/draft\/onsi\/player-profiles\/teams-are-quietly-circling-austin-barber-for-one-key-nfl-draft-reason\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SI.com\u2019s Justin Melo<\/a> he had pre-draft trips planned with Arizona, Cincinnati and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas is coming off his second season at LSU where he recorded 488 yards and four touchdowns on 41 catches. He rushed for 99 yards and another score on 19 attempts.<\/p>\n<p>As a punt returner, he averaged nine yards per attempt on his way to 153 yards on 17 punts.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas only returned one kick last year but paced the SEC in kick return yards (633), return touchdowns (one) and returns (24) the season prior.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-10, 190-pound wide receiver did not appear in ESPN analyst Matt Miller\u2019s seven-round mock draft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/draft2026\/story\/_\/id\/48299038\/2026-nfl-mock-draft-seven-rounds-257-picks-projections-matt-miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">published<\/a> March 30.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas did, however, turn heads with a blazing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/combine\/tracker\/live-results\/40-yard-dash\/wr\/all-colleges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">4.28-second 40-yard dash<\/a> at the NFL Draft Combine. That was good enough for second among participating wide receivers behind only Mississippi State\u2019s Brenen Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-7, 318-pound Barber is coming off his fifth and final season at Florida. He appeared in 50 games for the Gators during that span. He allowed 11 sacks and 10 QB hits, according to Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n<p>The lineman has primarily played left tackle the past three seasons but did get some run on the opposite side from 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>Barber added a 5.12-second 40-yard dash and 32-inch vertical at the combine.<\/p>\n<p>Miller projected Barber to land with the Miami Dolphins in the fourth round (No. 130) of his mock draft.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tdrake4sports\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Tdrake4sports<\/a><\/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\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.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\/06\/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":"The Arizona Cardinals scheduled top 30 visits with LSU wide receiver Zavion Thomas and Florida offensive tackle Austin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-859945","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-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116366327491103314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859945","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=859945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}