{"id":266933,"date":"2026-04-26T10:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T10:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266933\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T10:44:31","slug":"cardinals-draft-texas-tech-wr-reggie-virgil-at-no-143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266933\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals draft Texas Tech WR Reggie Virgil at No. 143"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPE \u2014 The Arizona Cardinals drafted Texas Tech wide receiver Reggie Virgil with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AZCardinals\/status\/2048103532897980625?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the No. 143 pick<\/a> in the fifth round of the 2026 NFL Draft on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He marked the fourth offensive player taken by Arizona this draft, joining running back Jeremiyah Love (No. 3), guard Chase Bisontis (No. 34) and quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/carson-beck-pay\/3618953\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carson Beck<\/a> (No. 65).<\/p>\n<p>Virgil was among the wide receiver prospects that visited the Cardinals on a top 30 visit.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3, 187-pound wideout reeled in 57 receptions for 705 yards and six touchdowns in 14 games played last year. He chipped in two more scores and 35 yards on a pair of carries.<\/p>\n<p>He then ran a 4.57-second 40-yard dash and a 36-inch vertical at the NFL Draft Combine.<\/p>\n<p>He now joins a wide receivers room led by Marvin Harrison Jr. and Michael Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Virgil addition, the room had already undergone some changes with the signings of Kendrick Bourne and Devin Duvernay.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tdrake4sports\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Tdrake4sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE \u2014 The Arizona Cardinals drafted Texas Tech wide receiver Reggie Virgil with the No. 143 pick in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-266933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}