Cardinals coach Bruce Arians and General Manager Steve Keim spoke with the local media about the NFL draft for 27 minutes on Wednesday.
Afterward, other NFL teams surely mined their answers for any useful morsels of information, and with this duo, it wasn’t hard to find.
Arians called the quarterback class ‘average at best’ after the consensus top two of Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota, and didn’t foresee the Cardinals drafting a signal-caller. Keim, unprompted, said Connecticut cornerback Byron Jones had been in for a pre-draft visit, and also said his preference is to trade down in the draft rather than trade up.