The Arizona Cardinals have made a concerted effort this offseason to improve their defense, adding starting talent and depth on the defensive line, the defensive edge and linebacker in free agency and then addressing every defensive position in the NFL draft.
But that roster improvement comes after they made marked improvements from 2023 to 2024 defensively.
BetMGM's Nick Hennion noted that the Cardinals "moved from 32nd in defensive DVOA in 2023 to 14th in 2024" and that the improvement was impressive for a number of reasons.
- They played the third-hardest schedule of opposing offenses in 2024 after playing the hardest schedule in 2023.