photo courtesy of azcardinals.comFinally the first day of the draft and went. After all the waiting and anticipation the Arizona Cardinals drafted Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie with the 16th pick and Calais Campbell with the 50th.

I know a lot of Cardinal fans were hoping Arizona would pick Rashard Mendenhall when he fell to them. I wouldn’t have been upset at all if they decided to go with the stud running back, but I really like Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie. I’ve been saying the Cardinals will pick DRC for the last 4 months and I’ve felt he’s a freak talent that you can’t pass up. This improves the Cardinals secondary dramatically right away. I’m very pleased with this pick as you can tell, I know some of you might not be too happy because Mendenhall was there, but I really feel Cromartie is going to be the real deal.

Arizona’s second round pick was DE Calais Campbell from Miami. I love this pick. The speculation was Arizona would take a running back at this spot, but DE was a need and Calais Campbell was the best player available. Most scouts and analyst including myself thought Campbell would be drafted in the first round. So I definitely see this pick as a steal. Campbell is a massive 6 foot 8 and 295 pounds, most of which is muscle. He has good quickness and leverage for a guy his size, so nobody should worry too much about that.

Things went better than I thought they’d go. I’m very encouraged and excited to see what happens tomorrow for Day two.  Here’s a couple guys you should pay attention to for tomorrow…

•  Jamaal Charles, RB
• Cliff Avril, OLB
• Oniel Cousins, OT
• Charles Godfrey, CB
• Dan Connor, ILB
• Kevin Smith, RB
• Antwuan Molden,CB
• Justin King, CB
• Mario Manningham, WR
• Reggie Smith, CB
• Early Doucet, WR
• Jeremy Zuttah, OG
• Xavier Adibi, OLb

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