Top 50 Arizona Cardinals
The most tenured team in the National Football League, the Arizona Cardinals have taken a long road, traversed multiple cities, and seen more hard times than good.
Formed in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club, they would be renamed the Racine Normals for two years before becoming the Racing Cardinals. Twenty years later, they were charter members of the National Football League as the Chicago Cardinals.
In the Windy City, the franchise won two titles, the first in 1925, disputed by the Pottsville Maroons, but there was no NFL Championship Game back then. The second title is undisputed, as with their "Million Dollar Backfield," they won the Championship Game in 1947, the last title they have won.
Taking a backseat to the Bears in Chicago, the Cardinals relocated to St. Louis in 1961. They only made the playoffs thrice in St. Louis and relocated again in 1987, becoming the Phoenix Cardinals. That name would change again to the Arizona Cardinals, and with Kurt Warner as their Quarterback, they made it to their first Super Bowl in the 2008 Season. They did not win but appear to have a permanent home in the desert.
Note: Football lists are based on an amalgamation of tenure, traditional statistics, advanced statistics, playoff statistics, and post-season accolades.
This list is up to the end of the 2022 Season.
When you think of Kurt Warner, naturally, the first professional football team you think of (and you should) is the St. Louis Rams, but he did enough in Arizona to extend his legacy and gain an eventual spot in Canton. Warner signed with Arizona after a year with the Giants, and his first campaign in the desert was disappointing, as…
In the same draft that the St. Louis Cardinals grabbed an elite Running Back (Ottis Anderson), they landed a top-flight Wide Receiver in Roy Green, though it took longer before that selection paid dividends. Green was used more as a Returner in his first two seasons before seeing significant action as a Wide Receiver. A permanent starter by 1982, Green…
A Cardinal for the entirety of his 13-year NFL career, Luis Sharpe was the second Offensive Lineman taken in the 1982 NFL Draft, behind only Hall of Famer Mike Munchak. It is a safe assumption that the Cards got the second-best Offensive Lineman of that draft. Playing for the team while they had geographic designations of St. Louis, Phoenix, and…
One of the best Wide Receivers in Cardinals history, Anquan Boldin, made an immediate impact in his 2003 rookie season. A Second Round Pick from Florida State, Boldin won the Offensive Rookie of the Year on the strength of a 1,377 Yard/8 Touchdown year. Boldin only played 10 Games in 2004 but bounced back with 1,402 Yards and led the…
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Tom Banks would become a steal for the St. Louis Cardinals when they got the Auburn Offensive Lineman in the 8th Round of the 1970 Draft, but it would take years to realize that value. Banks missed the entire 1970 Season because of a knee injury but came back to take over the starting duties at Center. He played more…
The St. Louis Cardinals did not have to look far to find their next star, Wide Receiver, as Mel Gray played his college ball at the University of Missouri, where his speed is still legendary. Gray was a Sixth Round Pick in 1971 and broke out in the 1974 campaign, where he began a streak of four consecutive Pro Bowls. …
Bob DeMarco centered the Cardinals throughout the 1960s, debuting in 1961 and becoming a starter the year after. DeMarco was solid throughout the decade, netting three Pro Bowls (1963, 1965 & 1967), with the last of the three also seeing him with a First Team All-Pro. DeMarco left St. Louis after the 1969 season, playing five more years in the…
Drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in 1962, Jim Bakken did not make the Rams roster out of training camp but was scooped up by the St. Louis Cardinals, a team he would play 15 years for. Special Teams advanced considerably during Bakken's time, and he was one of an emerging group of specialty Kickers. Chosen for four Pro Bowls…
After four seasons with New England, where we won a Super Bowl and went to a Pro Bowl, Chandler Jones was dealt to the Arizona Cardinals, where he had greater individual success. In his first year in Arizona (2016), the pass rusher had an 11 Sack/15 Tackle for Loss year, continuing his run as a top Edge performer, but he…
Calais Campbell will go down in history as being more successful in his post-Cardinal career, but it was in Arizona that his career began. A Second Round Pick in 2008, Campbell helped Arizona make the Super Bowl in his rookie year, and the year after, he became a starter at Left Defensive End. Campbell's skills improved slowly, year by year,…
A product of Stephen F. Austin, Larry Centers was one of their rare draft picks (5th Round in 1990) by the Cardinals, but during the Fullback’s first two seasons, you had to wonder why they selected him at all, as he was barely used. In his third season, it changed for Centers, who played in all 16 Games and had…
Dale Meinert was initially drafted into the NFL by the Baltimore Colts, but he never played there, instead playing for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League, where he won two Grey Cups. He would return to the United States in 1958, joining the Chicago Cardinals becoming a starting Guard. As the Cardinals relocated to St. Louis in 1960,…
Sonny Randle was a “futures” Draft Pick, meaning that the Chicago Cardinals used their 19th Round Pick in 1958 to select Wide Receiver Sonny Randle, who was still slated to play one more season with Virginia. Randle would make the Cardinals as a rookie, but when the team relocated the next year to St. Louis, he was made a starter…
For 14 Seasons, you knew exactly who would be at Left Linebacker for the St. Louis Cardinals, and that man was Larry Stallings. An 18th Rounder from Georgia Tech, Stallings proved to be a steal for the Cardinals, as save for his second and third year, he was healthy and dependable and recorded a lot of tackles for St. Louis. …
The Second Overall Pick Pat Harder from Wisconsin in 1944, Pat Harder made his first appearance for the Chicago Cardinals in 1946, where he was part of their “Million Dollar Backfield” along with Paul Christman, Charley Trippi, and Marshall Goldberg. Harder’s tenure with the Cardinals was brief but potent. Living up to the hype, he would help the Chicago Cardinals…
A superstar at Portland State, Neil Lomax allegedly set 90 records while he was the Vikings Quarterback. This afforded him a rarity for a Portland State player, a high draft pick (2nd Round in 1981) in the NFL Draft. Lomax saw action in his inaugural year, learning from the aging Jim Hart, and was an All-Rookie. Playing in the then…
Tim McDonald was an All-American at USC, where he continued the tradition of excellent Safeties the Trojans produced. The St. Louis Cardinals used their Second Round Pick in 1987 to get him, and it was as a Cardinal where he spent the first half of his career. McDonald only played three Games as a rookie, but as the team relocated…
Pat Tilley played his entire career with the St. Louis Cardinals, who drafted him in the Fourth Round from Louisiana Tech in 1976. Tilley became a starting Wide Receiver in his third year, and he embarked on a four-year run of at least 900 Receiving Yards, peaking at 1,040 in 1981 and a Pro Bowl nod in 1980. While never…
We often hear of the "Swiss Army Knife" in the NFL, where players can do many things. That term did not exist when Bobby Joe Conrad played but would have been applied to him had North America known of such a device. Conrad was drafted by the New York Giants in 1958 but was traded before training camp to the…