TEMPE – Arizona Cardinals general manager Monti Ossenfort and head coach Jonathan Gannon walked out of the team’s NFL Draft war room and into the media room on Friday night grinning from ear to ear.
Because for a second straight day, Arizona added to key positions while not jumping the gun or spending unneccessary draft capital via trade despite what other teams around it were doing.
“Our board actually fell really well for us,” Ossenfort said after Day 2 concluded on Friday. “It tends to happen leaguewide when there’s a run on a position. We see it all the time. It happened with a couple other positions tonight and it just happened to be in that stretch of corners that it happened for us.”
Even with that run of defensive backs, though, Ossenfort and Gannon came away with a highly targeted Day 2 prospect in second-round pick and Rutgers cornerback …