{"id":601410,"date":"2026-04-12T04:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601410\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:53:11","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-preview-linebacker-prospects-and-the-arizona-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601410\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL draft preview: Linebacker prospects and the Arizona Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 NFL draft is soon, beginning on April 23. The Arizona Cardinals could select a linebacker at some point. They have Mack Wilson. They drafted Owen Pappoe and Cody Simon in the last few years. They signed Jack Gibbens.<\/p>\n

In a new episode of the podcast, cohost Seth Cox and I continued our draft prospect preview, this time talking about the off-ball linebacker prospects and how they might fit with the Cardinals.<\/p>\n

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We go over Ohio State’s Sonny Styles as a first-round prospect and then talk about who could be Day 2 picks and guys to know for Day 3.<\/p>\n

(1:00) Round 1 linebacker prospects to know<\/p>\n

(7:00) Day 2 linebacker prospects to know<\/p>\n

(15:55) Day 3 linebacker prospects to know<\/p>\n

Enjoy the show!<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: 2026 NFL draft preview: Linebacker prospects and the Arizona Cardinals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NFL draft is soon, beginning on April 23. The Arizona Cardinals could select a linebacker at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[17076,1258,64,63,94985,284486,293143,156786,593,86712,133467,85,3750],"class_list":{"0":"post-601410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-cody-simon","13":"tag-jack-gibbens","14":"tag-linebacker-prospects","15":"tag-mack-wilson","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-owen-pappoe","18":"tag-sonny-styles","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-the-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}