KAY: Welcome back to NFL Network, I'm Kay Adams. Today we are covering teams offseasons headed into the draft. Up next we send it out to the desert in Tempe, Arizona and to our man Ian Rapoport. Ian?
IAN: Hi Kay. Yes, I'm standing outside of Cardinals' headquarters where it has been a season of turnover. As you know the Cardinals started the offseason early with the retirement of Head Coach Bruce Arians and retirement of Carson Palmer and then the hiring of new Head coach Derek Bryant.'
The Cardinals have made some moves and moved guys around on their own team. The first big move was t fill the hole at quarterback where the front office went all in for Teddy Bridgewater the former rising star QB sidelined for two seasons with a knee injury. Another addition was at OLB of Bruce Irvin. irvin and FS Obi Melifonwu were sent over from Oakland in exchange for veteran safety Antoine Bethea and RE Josh Mauro. Irvin has 13 sacks over the last season and the Cardinals ranked around 23rd in sacks last season.
Other than those few moves it has been a relitively quite offseason in Arizona. They did sign Kicker Dan Bailey to a 5-year deal to replace Phil Dawson. But mostly went with older veteran stop-gap type players like; LB Paul Posluszny and CB Brent Grimes.
The focus now goes to the draft where the Cardinals front office hopes to be active. They have shown a strong interest in the OL in the draft and will likely need multiple OLmen out of this class. That being said they have shown interest in guys like; LT Trey Barber, RG Howard Shepard, and LG Denetri Tolver. All looking to go high in the first two rounds. Another guy the Cardinals have been all over this scouting process is WR Keiwone Webber from Northern Iowa.Webber blew up the combine and many coaches had him as the highest graded there. He looks to go around the 3-5 rounds, but with his combine could sneak up draft boards. The Cardinals have a lot of holes and hopefully, the Cardinals can patch them before the start of the season. Back to you Kay.