{"id":865047,"date":"2026-04-12T19:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865047\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:58:42","slug":"theres-a-chance-cardinals-qb-target-falls-in-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865047\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a &#8216;Chance&#8217; Cardinals QB Target Falls in Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">So much of the noise building around the Arizona Cardinals and what could come of light in the 2026 NFL Draft is predicated around the quarterback position, and to some degree it makes sense. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">The Cardinals pulled the Kyler Murray plug after seven years in Arizona, leaving a vacancy for their franchise quarterback spot moving into the future. While Jacoby Brissett is poised to be their bridge quarterback through next season, no true long-term answer has been found. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6m\">Some believe the Cardinals could find that in Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Ty Simpson, who is expected to go somewhere in the late first\/early second round. Simpson&#8217;s been a popular pick for Arizona through mock draft season, though time will ultimately tell if the Cardinals want this to be a true pairing. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6p\">If so, they could see Simpson slide \u2014 and maybe further than expected.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6s\">The Athletic&#8217;s NFL Draft guru, Dane Brugler, appeared on Arizona Sports&#8217; 98.7 earlier this week and suggests Simpson could in fact be available in rounds two or three of festivities. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6v\">&#8220;He does do a lot of NFL things. I think the way he navigates the pocket. You watch the first six games of the year, you think, \u2018This is an NFL starter. This is someone we want on our team.\u2019 Then you look at the back half of the year, you just can\u2019t ignore that part of it,&#8221; Brugler said (<a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/ty-simpson-qbs\/3617426\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">h\/t Tyler Drake<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6y\">&#8220;When the run game wasn\u2019t going, the offensive line wasn\u2019t holding up, a lot more was put on the quarterback to get things done. It was a lot of mixed results from Ty Simpson. In my opinion, I think he\u2019s a second-round player. I think there\u2019s a chance we go into Friday night of draft weekend with Ty Simpson still on the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"71\">The Cardinals own the third overall pick in the first round but are highly expected to address another position such as edge rusher or right tackle. Trading down also appears to be an option for Arizona. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"74\">Their next pick is at No. 34, the second pick in Round 2. Arizona is highly thought to be interested in packaging that pick with more capital to move back into the first round, somewhere in the 20&#8217;s, to take Simpson. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"77\">Yet if Brugler&#8217;s belief&#8217;s are anything close to reality, they may not need to move up the board at all for Simpson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So much of the noise building around the Arizona Cardinals and what could come of light in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-865047","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\/116393510845361096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865047","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=865047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}