INDIANAPOLIS – David Bailey shrugged his shoulders at the notion he could be a top three pick in the NFL Draft this April.

"To go top three, top two, top 10, first two rounds, it doesn't really matter," the edge rusher from Texas Tech said Wednesday. "It's just a super cool opportunity."

It may not matter to Bailey. But it matters to the NFL in a draft with a dearth of high-end quarterbacks, and it matters to the Cardinals, who have a top three pick and, as most teams do, a need for another premier pass rusher.

The choice for the Cardinals may come down to an offensive tackle – Utah's Spencer Fano and Miami's Francis Maligoa – or an edge rusher. If it's the latter, it interesting, since the top three prospects – Bailey, Miami's Rueben Bain Jr., Ohio State's Arvell Reese – are so disparate.

"The quarterback thing is not going to be solved there," NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah said. "I don't know if there is a wrong answer between a tackle and an edge rusher. I think the value of where they are picking points to the edge rushers."

The Cardinals signed Josh Sweat as a free agent last season and he delivered 12 sacks. But the other edge rushers combined for only 5½ sacks and the team was frequently seeking more pressure.

In a league where the best teams have waves of players that can pressure – especially in their own division – adding a playmaker makes sense

"There was some good, there was some bad, that's the same thing you can say for any of our guys," GM Monti Ossenfort said. "Josh was great. Josh was as advertised. He came in and was able to disrupt the quarterback on the edge. All of our players would say there are things we left out there, and it's our job to help them develop in situations for them to succeed. That's true for edge and all our positions."

There are a couple of decisions that have to be made. The Athletic's draft analyst, Dane Brugler, has 16 edge players in his top 100 prospects, and said he had looked at trying to squeeze in another four or five. That means there will options in the second and third rounds for the Cardinals if they want to wait.

If they stick top three, then it is about finding, as both Jeremiah and Brugler said, what flavor they want.

Bailey, 6-foot-3 and 250 pounds, had 14½ sacks last season and is all about speed. Reese, 6-4 and 240, is a projection on the edge, holding perhaps the best tools but having played off the ball more often for the Buckeyes. Bain will end up measuring with shorter arms and is more compact at 6-3 and 270 pounds, but he had 9½ sacks, is tougher against the run and will war with whatever blocker is in front of him.

Bain also had the best answer why he should be the first of the three chosen.

"Because I'm a monster," Bain said. "I prep myself in the building day in and day out."

(All three acknowledged they have met with the Cardinals but that is a given; especially picking this high the Cardinals are going to meet with every one of the top prospects at some point, whether it was the Senior Bowl, here in Indy, or during a 30 visit in Tempe.)

A scan of the analysts, at least here in late February, finds no real consensus on who is on top. Enough searching will find each of the three as the "best" of the three. Jeremiah said there isn't a Myles Garrett-type available, but in the decision at 3, none of the tackles are Trent Williams either.

Reese, who will need the most development on the edge, said he had "just scratched the surface" of what he can do as a pass rusher. Bain said he doesn't care where he is picked but guaranteed whoever did would get a great player. Bailey said he just wants to land with a coaching staff that can push him to be great.

All will be gone in the top 10. The Cardinals could end up as a factor in how quickly the trio ultimately is taken, and in what order.

"I don't really see anybody but me (as the best)," Reese said, "but I ain't gonna lie, I'm just trying to get better."