Measureables and talent weren’t in question for defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche as he was coming out of Mississippi. Those attributes would have had him go early in Thursday’s NFL draft – top 10 maybe, or even top five for some.
But Nkemdiche knew he was going to go later in the first round because of a December incident in which he fell out of a fourth-floor hotel window, leaving questions about him off the field – which is why the Cardinals met with him multiple times this spring before being convinced he was too good to pass on 29th overall.