Two weeks after announcing he’d be foregoing his senior season because of an NCAA rules violation, Jalen Thompson’s NFL career can now officially start: The Arizona Cardinals selected him in the fifth round of its supplemental draft.
That means the Cardinals will surrender a fifth-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft to obtain the rights to Thompson’s services now.
The NFC West team is in the throes of a full rebuild, having bottomed out last season. The resulting house cleaning led to the hiring of Kliff Kingsbury as the team’s new head coach and the drafting of Kyler Murray with the first overall pick.