One of the Cardinals’ top off-season priorities is to do a better job of developing the young talent on their roster.
Since Steve Keim became the team’s GM in 2013, the Cardinals have only re-signed two of its own draftees (S Tyrann Mathieu and RB David Johnson) to multi-year 2nd contracts.
This hurts the team, big-time (plus the fact that both Mathieu and Johnson, awarded contracts before their contract years, were or have been major disappointments as salary stealers)—-and it is the principal reason why Keim keeps drafting players at the same positions over and over, hoping eventually to get it right.