NFL mock draft: Arizona Cardinals make 2 first-round trades
The Cardinals trade back from No. 3 and trade back into Round 1 in Daniel Jeremiah's final mock draft.
If there are two narratives that have lingered for a while when it comes to the Arizona Cardinals and the 2026 NFL draft, one was that they wanted to trade back from the third overall pick and draft a tackle, and the other was that they like quarterback Ty Simpson and want to add him. So if those things are what the Cardinals truly want to do, Daniel Jeremiah's final mock draft for NFL. com is a perfectly executed game plan.
With Ohio State pass rusher Arvell Reese on the board and available for the Cardinals to take at No. 3, but instead the New Orleans Saints want him. They trade up to the third overall pick and the Cardinals move back to the eighth pick.
He doesn't specify the exact trade, but a trade with the Saints could be No. 3 and No. 104 for No.
8 and No. 42. At pick No.