List of Arizona Cardinals first-round draft picks
Year Pick Player name College Position
1960 2 George Izo Notre Dame QB
1961 8 Ken Rice Auburn T
1962 6 Fate Echols Northwestern DT
1962 12 Irv Goode Kentucky C
1963 2 Jerry Stovall LSU S
1963 13 Don Brumm Purdue DE
1964 9 Ken Kortas Louisville DT
1965 12 Joe Namath Alabama QB
1966 8 Carl McAdams Oklahoma LB
1967 16 Dave Williams Washington WR
1968 13 MacArthur Lane Utah State RB
1969 19 Roger Wehrli Missouri DB
1970 8 Larry Stegent Texas A & M RB
1971 17 Norm Thompson Utah CB
1972 4 Ahmad Rashad Oregon RB/WR
1973 5 Dave Butz Purdue DT
1974 7 J. V. Cain Colorado TE
1975 21 Tim Gray Texas A & M DB
1976 22 Mike Dawson Arizona DT
1977 19 Steve Pisarkiewicz Missouri QB
The St. Louis years , 1960–1987
The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football franchise based in Glendale, Arizona. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The Cardinals were founded as the Morgan Athletic Club in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional football team in the World. Officially known as the NFL Draft, the event is the NFL's primary mechanism for distributing newly professional players finished with their college football careers to its teams. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings; the teams with the worst win-loss records receive the earliest picks. Teams that qualified for the NFL playoffs select after non-qualifiers, and their order depends on how far they advanced. The final two selections in the first round are reserved for the Super Bowl runner-up and champion. Draft picks are tradable, and players or other picks can be acquired with them.