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Answering Steve Keim's cry for help: What the Cardinals should do with the No. 1 pick

Arizona Republic columnists Greg Moore and Kent Somers explain what they would do if they were the Cardinals and held the No. 1 pick in the draft. Michael Chow, Arizona Republic

Last Tuesday, nine days before the NFL draft, General Manager Steve Keim told us the Cardinals had yet to decide who they were going to take with the first overall selection.

That’s hard to believe given the franchise’s brain trust has pondered the question since Dec. 30, when the Cardinals lost their 13th and final game of the 2018 season.

Keim might have been blowing smoke, but since no alarms sounded that day at the Dignity Health Arizona Cardinals Training Center, (the DHACTC, I guess), let’s take Keim at his word and view it was a cry for help.