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Study, structure, self-belief: The keys to success for Arizona Cardinals' Isaiah Simmons

azcentral sports reviews the Arizona Cardinals' 2020 NFL draft and looks ahead to what we can expect from the team's selections on the field. Arizona Republic

How does a skinny track star from Kansas metamorphosize into a 6-feet, 4-inch tall, 238-pound linebacker for a national powerhouse like Clemson and master the art of playing five different defensive positions to become a first-round pick in the NFL?

Thanks to study, structure and self-belief, it wasn’t such a long jump for Isaiah Simmons, the former long jumper from the town of Olathe.

He learned those three basic elements of his life as a youth, carried them with him through college and plans to use all three once again to dominate in the NFL now that he was the first-round pick of the Cardinals with the No.