Four Verts, post-NFL Draft: Cardinals' moves may cast new light on Kyler Murray, and enough with the Ty Simpson pick PR

The 2026 NFL Draft is in the books. We graded the first-round picks , the Day 2 picks and each team’s draft class as a whole . Now this edition of the Four Verts column takes a look at some of the biggest stories in the fallout.

Cardinals’ draft throws a new perspective on Kyler Murray Apologies to any Cardinals fans out there, this comes from a fan of a fellow dysfunctional team that resides in Atlanta, Georgia. However, that Cardinals draft class was a bit of an unusual way for a team to start a new rebuild under a new regime. Jeremiyah Love will form a nice duo with newly signed Tyler Allgeier, but taking a running back third overall with so many needs in a brutally tough division doesn’t seem like the best use of that pick.

Chase Bisontis was a solid choice at the top of the second round, but picking Carson Beck at 65 only added confusion. Dysfunction or overzealous hubris is easy to spot when your own team is guilty of it, and the Cardinals have a blinking beacon over theirs. In fact, their process this offseason puts Kyler Murray’s run in Arizona, which bafflingly ended in an outright release, into somewhat of a new light.

Considering how poorly the organization has been run recently, perhaps this move to the Vikings can provide the competence Murray has been missing. This isn’t to say the Vikings have been perfect because they clearly have not. Between the complete failure of the J.