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Arizona Cardinals: Seven round mock draft

By Scott Allen

BATON ROUGE, LA - NOVEMBER 03: Quinnen Williams #92 of the Alabama Crimson Tide celebrates a second half sack while playing the LSU Tigers at Tiger Stadium on November 3, 2018 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
BATON ROUGE, LA - NOVEMBER 03: Quinnen Williams #92 of the Alabama Crimson Tide celebrates a second half sack while playing the LSU Tigers at Tiger Stadium on November 3, 2018 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) /
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BERKELEY, CA – DECEMBER 01: Fullback Malik McMorris #99 of the California Golden Bears breaks a tackle from linebacker Bobby Okereke #20 of the Stanford Cardinal during the second quarter at California Memorial Stadium on December 1, 2018 in Berkeley, California. (Photo by Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)
BERKELEY, CA – DECEMBER 01: Fullback Malik McMorris #99 of the California Golden Bears breaks a tackle from linebacker Bobby Okereke #20 of the Stanford Cardinal during the second quarter at California Memorial Stadium on December 1, 2018 in Berkeley, California. (Photo by Jason O. Watson/Getty Images) /

Round 6, pick 6 – (166th overall) – Bobby Okereke, LB, Stanford

The Cardinals moved up from the seventh round a few weeks ago after they traded with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  The Bucs hired Bruce Arians as their new head coach, the Cardinals still owned his rights after his retirement.

For compensation, they got Tampa’s sixth-round pick and gave them their seventh.  The Cardinals have a chance to get another player in the sixth round, just five picks after their first sixth round pick.

Why not go back to the biggest area of need at linebacker?  The selection of Okereke makes a lot of sense here.

He had 96 tackles last season, 3.5 of them for sacks. He forced two fumbles and recovered one.  He also had five passes defensed.  He had similar numbers in 2017.

Next. Former Cardinals back just misses Hall of Fame again. dark

He’s consistent.  That is a word that has been missing from the description of this unit for quite sometime.  The All-Pac 12 honorable mention could end up being more than that in his move to the NFL.

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