The Arizona Cardinals made two trades in the first round of Thursday’s NFL Draft, going from No. 3 overall to No. 12, then up to No. 6 to select former Ohio State offensive lineman Paris Johnson Jr. Johnson started all 13 Buckeyes games at left tackle last season, after playing right guard the season before. He is the son of a former Cardinal, Paris Johnson, whom Arizona drafted in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL Draft, and is the first Ohio State tackle to go in the first round since 2016. The elder Johnson played one season with the Cardinals and was also on the practice squads of the Miami Dolphins, Carolina Panthers and Dallas Cowboys, and is now a coach at Michigan State. “Paris said to me, ‘I want to be here, I want to be an Arizona Cardinal. And I want to finish what my dad started,'”…
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