SB Nation NFL Mock Draft: Arizona Cardinals select Edge Chop Robinson with 27th pick in 2024 NFL Mock Draft

The Arizona Cardinals add an elite athlete at edge rusher with their final pick in the 2024 NFL Mock Draft.

With the 27th pick in the 2024 SB Nation NFL Blogger Mock Draft, the Arizona Cardinals select Chop Robinson, edge, Penn State.

The way the first round unfolded was interesting, which made this pick the most difficult of the group to take.

After moving down, then back up to secure Marvin Harrison Jr. getting the additional first round pick this year and next year, we used our second round pick to move up from 11 to five for the best player in the draft.

Then, with the 23rd pick, we sat back and let it unfold.

This is how picks 10-22 went:

• Taliese Fuaga
• J.C. Latham
• Bo Nix
• Dallas Turner
• Troy Fautanu
• Brock Bowers
• Jer’Zhan ‘Johnny’ Newton
• Terrion Arnold
• Byron Murphy II
• Laiatu Latu
• Olu Fashanu
• Jared Verse
• Quinyon Mitchell

I almost had Verse or Mitchell, meaning that we needed to grab the best cornerback remaining on our board and took Cooper DeJean.

Then 24, 25 and 26 happened:

24. Jackson Powers-Johnson
25. Amarius Mims
26. Graham Barton

That was exactly what we were hoping did not happen. We explored some trade backs at this point, but with this not being the real deal, what point does a second next year serve for pick 40ish this year?

So, we sat and picked.

Chop Robinson.

The Haason Reddick level athlete off the edge that this defense desperately needs. He is not a finished product by any means, but he is a freak athlete as Daniel Jeremiah discusses:

Robinson is an extremely twitched-up edge rusher with limited production. He has average size but is incredibly explosive. As a pass rusher, he has excellent get-off quickness, but it looks odd because of his short/choppy steps. He will cause more stress for OTs when he learns how to lengthen his stride and gain ground. He flashes a nifty two-hand swipe maneuver and a push/pull move.

Robinson actually reminds me a lot of Boye Mafe, the edge defender the Seahawks took two years ago. He has developed into a steady pass rusher, finishing with nine sacks in his second season.

I see Robinson along the same lines, as Lance Zierlein says:

He’s ultra-twitchy with the explosiveness to get on top of blockers and overwhelm them in an instant. However, he will need to level up his hand skills and attack angles to reach his potential against NFL tackles. Robinson’s electric athletic traits alone should give him a floor as a good NFL starter. If he crafts a rush approach and learns to string moves/counters together, he could reach his ceiling as a destructive force capable of forcing teams to game plan around him.

With that, our time in the 2024 NFL Draft is done.

Not a bad haul on day one:

Marvin Harrison Jr.
Cooper DeJean
Chop Robinson