Cardinals had to delay drafting Jeremiyah Love because they had a wrong phone number

It wasn't a lack of trying; the club dialed the number they had for Love.

And all the while underlings scrambled madly for a correct number.

"If you want me to tell you the honest-to-God truth, we had the wrong phone number," Cardinals general manager Monti Ossenfort said later.

"The phone number that we were given was the wrong one and so that was a little bit of the delay. But we got that straightened out and we called Jeremiyah and got ahold of him. That is what the delay was, technical difficulties."

We have to thank Ossenfort for his transparency. But, on the other hand, yikes!

What made matters somewhat more uncomfortable is the Cardinals actually were hoping to trade down from their No. 3 pick to add more draft resources later on. But there simply wasn't the kind of demand for Love they had hoped.

"There was very minimal conversations, some surface-level but nothing that came anywhere close to getting us to move off the pick," Ossenfort said.

Here's where it helps to understand that the NFL provides players with phones for the draft and then distributes those numbers to teams.

The league limited access to prospects' contact information to one person within each franchise.

It's unclear if the person holding the numbers for the Cardinals relayed the digits incorrectly or got a bad number from the NFL. Whatever the case, it eventually got resolved.

Maybe the club called Love's personal number because Ossenfort had it and had used it previously.

"We had a great interaction with him at the combine," Ossenfort said. "I followed up with him with a call over the weekend and just had a great overall interaction. Like I said, you guys will get the chance to meet him, an impressive kid. Just really excited to add the person to our locker room."