26 former Cardinals players, coaches on Chiefs, Bucs for Super Bowl LV
The Arizona Cardinals did not make it to the Super Bowl and did not even make the postseason. However, there are a number of former Cardinals players and coaches who are part of the big game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs.
Both teams have former Cardinals players and the Bucs have a coaching staff full of former Cardinals coaches.
Check them out below.
Bucs LB/S Deone Bucannon
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Bucannon played from 2014-2018 for the Cardinals and is a former Cardinals first-round draft pick.
Bucs QB Blaine Gabbert
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The backup to Tom Brady for Tampa, he played for the Cardinals in 2017, starting five games.
Bucs LB Kevin Minter
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Minter was a second-round draft pick of the Cardinals in 2013 and played four seasons for Arizona. He is a special teams captain for the Bucs.
Bucs RB T.J. Logan
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Logan is on injured reserve. He was drafted by the Cardinals in the fifth round in 2017. He spent his rookie season on injured reserve and played in 2018 for them.
Bucs OL A.Q. Shipley
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Shipley is also on IR. He played five seasons for the Cardinals, starting 51 games.
Bucs OL Ted Larsen
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Larsen is on the practice squad. He was a starter for the Cardinals at guard in 2014 and 2015.
Bucs QB Drew Stanton
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Stanton is also on the practice squad. He was the Cardinals' backup quarterback from 2013-2017 and started 13 games, going 9-4 as a starter.
Bucs OL Earl Watford
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Watford is also on the practice squad. He was drafted by the Cardinals in the fourth round in 2013 and played 43 games, starting 21 of them, over four seasons in Arizona.
Bucs P Matt Wile
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Wile is on the practice squad. He punted for the Cardinals briefly in 2016 and was in camp for the team in 2017. He won the punting job until the Cardinals signed Andy Lee.
Bucs HC Bruce Arians
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Arians, in his second season as head coach of Tampa Bay, coached five years for the Cardinals. He is the Cardinals' all-time winningest coach.
Bucs assistant HC/run game coordinator Harold Goodwin
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Goodwin was Arians' offensive coordinator for five years with the Cardinals.
Bucs OC Byron Leftwich
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Leftwich was a coaching intern for the Cardinals in 2016, quarterbacks coach in 2017 and 2018, and he was promoted to offensive coordinator during the 2018 season after Mike McCoy was fired.
Bucs DC Todd Bowles
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Bowles was DC for the Cardinals in 2013-2014 before getting hired as head coach of the New York Jets.
Bucs ILB coach Mike Caldwell
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Caldwell was the Cardinals' linebackers coach from 2013-2014 and has followed Todd Bowles since then.
Bucs OLB coach Larry Foote
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Foote played his final NFL season for the Cardinals in 2014. He was an assistant linebackers coach in 2015 and then was linebackers coach from 2016-2018.
Bucs TE coach Rick Christophel
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Christophel held the same position with the Cardinals from 2013-2017.
Bucs WR Coach Kevin Garver
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Garver was with the Cardinals from 2013-2018. He began as an offensive assistant, became assistant wide receivers coach in 2017 and then was receivers coach in 2018.
Bucs speed and conditioning coach Roger Kingdom
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Kingdom was assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Cardinals from 2014-2017.
Bucs assistant coach Tom Moore
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Moore was assistant head coach-offense for the Cardinals from 2013-2017.
Bucs safeties coach Nick Rapone
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He was defensive backs coach for the Cardinals from 2013-2017.
Bucs CB coach Kevin Ross
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Ross held the same position with the Cardinals from 2013-2017.
Chiefs S Tyrann Mathieu
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Mathieu was drafted by the Cardinals in the third round in 2013 and played five seasons for the team, making the Pro Bowl once and being named an All-Pro once.
Chiefs DE Alex Okafor
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Okafor was drafted by the Cardinals in the fourth round in 2013 and played four seasons for the team, notching a career-high eight sacks in 2014.
Chiefs TE Ricky Seals-Jones
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Seals-Jones joined the league in 2017 as an undrafted rookie with the Cardinals and played 2018 as well for the team. he had 34 receptions in 2018.
Chiefs FB Anthony Sherman
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He was drafted by the Cardinals in 2011, played two seasons and was traded to the Chiefs in 2013. He has played there ever since.
Chiefs TE Evan Baylis
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