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Arvell Reese To EMERGE As Frontrunner For Arizona Cardinals At Pick 3 In 2026 NFL Draft?

April 7, 2026·1 hr 12 min·5 clips
The Cardinals have drafted three tweener linebackers — Hassan Reddick, Isaiah Simmons, and Zayvon Collins — with high picks, and none of them became what the team hoped; now Monty Ossenford may be about to do it again.
The episode opens with a third-overall Cardinals rumor hanging over the room. The hosts treat an NFL insider tip as maybe real and immediately ask what it means for Arizona's board. That pushes the discussion into fit, value, and the possibility that Monty Ossenford could be close to ending a rough offseason with another big swing. They fold in the updated top 30 visits and keep circling the same question: if the Cardinals are leaning defender at the top, is it a clean answer or just a clever sounding bet? Isaiah Simmons is the warning sign. The hosts revisit how badly a defender can go sideways when the coverage role is wrong, then contrast that with how Nick Rollis's defensive uses linebackers and cross training. Mack Wilson Sr. and Cody Simon matter because they already anchor the room, so a premium pick has to be more than a depth add or a tweener experiment. Darius Robinson, Garrett Williams, and Jordan Birch come up as examples of how Arizona has wrestled with position labels before. The banter stays quick, with the hosts correcting themselves and returning to the same pressure point: if Arizona is taking a defender this high, the fit has to be airtight. By the end, the episode is less about declaring the pick than about testing every possible answer against the Cardinals' recent history.

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A Cardinals draft discussion that keeps its focus on fit, visits, and linebacker history.

The episode stays anchored in a real football question: whether the Cardinals should use a third-overall choice on a player who fits the roster, not just the rumor mill.

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You want to know why the Cardinals' third-overall rumor keeps resurfacing.

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