Every Arizona Cardinals first-round draft pick in team history

Arizona Cardinals 1970 first-round draft pick:

He was bad. One carry for twelve yards in two seasons.

Arizona Cardinals 1971 first-round draft pick:

Thompson turned out to be a great corner for the Cardinals, with 33 interceptions from 1971 to 1979.

Arizona Cardinals 1972 first-round draft pick:

With back-to-back Pac 12 picks in the first round, Rashad made a splash with four Pro Bowl selections and 6,831 yards with 44 receiving touchdowns in his career.

But only 909 yards and six scores came with the Cardinals. He played for Buffalo and Minnesota after his time with St.Louis.

Arizona Cardinals 1973 first-round draft pick:

Butz would only spend two seasons with the Cardinals before going on to win two Super Bowls with Washington.

Arizona Cardinals 1974 first-round draft pick:

Cain is in the image at the top of the page. Cain’s best season came in 1976, when he hauled in 400 yards and five touchdowns.

Sadly he battled injuries before collapsing suddenly in a 1979 nighttime training camp practice at Lindenwood University on his 27th birthday, in which he was temporarily revived.

Cain would end up passing away just two hours later at the hospital. Cain’s 88 jersey is retired by the Cardinals.

Arizona Cardinals 1975 first-round draft pick:

Gray appeared in 14 games for the Cardinals in 1975 but then spent the rest of his career with the San Francisco 49ers.

Arizona Cardinals 1976 first-round draft pick:

Not only could most people not pronounce his last name, but Pisarkiewicz’s career was also terrible, going 2-2 as a starter and throwing for 804 yards and three touchdowns.

He would sign with the Packers after the 1979 season but was out of football after that point.

Arizona Cardinals 1978 first-round draft pick:

This pick made no sense, as Jim Bakken (the team’s all-time leading scorer and best kicker) was on the team. Little hardly played, and lost a training camp competition for his job in 1980.

The Cardinals cut him in front of the entire team, and later that night he got into a car accident that left him paralyzed. Little passed away in 1999.

Arizona Cardinals 1979 first-round draft pick:

Ottis Anderson should’ve never been allowed to leave the Cardinals. Anderson had six 1,000-yard seasons in his first seven years in the league. But a terrible trade where the Cardinals got fleeced by the Giants saw him become a key point to two of the Giants’ Super Bowl victories.