{"id":96750,"date":"2025-06-01T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/96750\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T23:06:07","slug":"5-stories-for-arizona-cardinals-fans-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/96750\/","title":{"rendered":"5 stories for Arizona Cardinals fans to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Checking in with the rest of the NFC West, some Seahawks news from the last week for Cardinals fans to know.<\/p>\n<p>We have completed another week in the NFL offseason, and that means it is time to check in with the rest of the NFC West and see what is going on with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" data-autotag=\"c6331531-478d-4c7a-b93a-28f5b26af3f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a>&#8216; division rivals.<\/p>\n<p>What is new with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco-49ers\/359\" data-autotag=\"3d4aeb7f-6493-4c2a-8803-2439e4b64ee4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" data-autotag=\"91fb7995-f6cd-4aa3-adbc-98eb39d76a79\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" data-autotag=\"f489e821-d3f9-4cff-bec5-7eaa0f4b51cb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Below are a few stories from the last week about the Seahawks that Cardinals fans should know.<\/p>\n<p>OTAs begin<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks, like the Cardinals, started Phase 3 of the offseason program. <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/05\/26\/seahawks-offseason-ota-workouts-begin-on-tuesday-for-seattle\/83864329007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">They have nine practices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seahawks called least improved<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks made several offseason moves. They traded Geno Smith and DK Metcalf and released Tyler Lockett. They signed Sam Darnold. With those moves, ESPN calls them the <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/05\/27\/espn-has-seahawks-among-their-least-improved-teams-list\/83884636007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">least improved team in the league<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Experienced rookies<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks drafted 11 players. The 11 players logged nearly 23,000 college snaps. They have the <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/05\/27\/espn-has-seahawks-among-their-least-improved-teams-list\/83884636007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most experienced rookie class in the league<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OTA position battles<\/p>\n<p>Like the Cardinals, the Seahawks have a few position battles during OTAs. These are the <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/05\/30\/seahawks-otas-position-battles-to-monitor-on-offense\/83929050007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">battles to know on offense<\/a>. These are <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/05\/30\/seahawks-otas-position-battles-to-monitor-on-defense\/83929456007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the battles to know on defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zabel first pitch<\/p>\n<p>A tradition that is around the NFL in markets where there are NFL and MLB teams, Seahawks first-round pick Grey Zabel, an offensive lineman, <a href=\"https:\/\/seahawkswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/seahawks\/2025\/05\/31\/seahawks-og-grey-zabel-threw-the-first-pitch-at-mariners-vs-twins-game\/83965537007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threw out the first pitch at a Seattle Mariners game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards 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\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL9sICHPD_aT9zxnG7dJj6izJWgMhLMh_U&amp;si=rpNldnLNN-_DdW8R\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\">Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Checking in with the rest of the NFC West, some Seahawks news from the last week for Cardinals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[220,247,265,240,375,390,1327,7761,2417,2870,12,388,7,219,2934,1507,379,1184,5269,239,58,24872,2418,6060,248,267,246,88,854,1593,6,245,264,424,1064,1878,218,252,238,237,16213,261,2635,1602,2517,2383,9,266,1757,2864,1588],"class_list":{"0":"post-96750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-angeles","12":"tag-arizona","13":"tag-arizona-cardinals","14":"tag-cardinals","15":"tag-darnold","16":"tag-dk","17":"tag-dk-metcalf","18":"tag-espn","19":"tag-espn-inc","20":"tag-football","21":"tag-francisco","22":"tag-geno","23":"tag-geno-smith","24":"tag-inc","25":"tag-listicle","26":"tag-lockett","27":"tag-los","28":"tag-los-angeles-rams","29":"tag-mariners","30":"tag-metcalf","31":"tag-mlb","32":"tag-national","33":"tag-national-sports","34":"tag-neutral","35":"tag-news","36":"tag-nfc","37":"tag-nfc-west","38":"tag-nfl","39":"tag-overall","40":"tag-overall-neutral","41":"tag-rams","42":"tag-sam","43":"tag-sam-darnold","44":"tag-san","45":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","46":"tag-seahawks","47":"tag-seattle","48":"tag-seattle-mariners","49":"tag-seattle-seahawks","50":"tag-seattleseahawks","51":"tag-smg","52":"tag-smg-listicle","53":"tag-smith","54":"tag-sports","55":"tag-sports-news","56":"tag-tyler","57":"tag-tyler-lockett","58":"tag-west"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96750","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=96750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}