With 43 days till the Cardinals open the season against the Saints, we look at the players who have worn No. 43.<\/p>\n
We are counting down to the start of the 2025 regular season for the\u00a0Arizona Cardinals<\/a>\u00a0and are less than seven weeks away. They will open the season on the road against the\u00a0New Orleans Saints<\/a> on Sept. 7.\u00a0That is 43 days away.<\/p>\n As we count down the remaining days of the offseason, let’s look at who has worn that number uniform over the years for the Cardinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n Who has worn No. 43?<\/p>\n Cardinals<\/a> players to wear No. 43<\/p>\n Linebacker Mykal Walker, acquired in free agency this offseason, wears No. 43.<\/p>\n LB Mykal Walker (2025-?)LB Jesse Luketa (2022-2024)LS Beau Brinkley (2021)LB Haason Reddick (2017-2020)S Matt Darby (1996-1997)S Lonnie Young (1985-1990)S Martin Bayless (1984)DB Steve Carpenter (1981)CB Norm Thompson (1971-1976)DB Tony Plummer (1970)DB Mark Sauls (1968-1969)RB Bill Montgomery (1946)OL Ray Busler (1940-1945)WR Gaynell Tinsley (1937)RB Al Nichelini (1935-1936)WR Chuck Kassel (1932-1933)<\/p>\n Reddick was great in 2020 but was otherwise disappointing for the Cardinals<\/a>. Lonnie Young was a fierce hitter but was more well known for his time with the Jets<\/a> after leaving Arizona. Thompson wore No. 43 the longest.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 43 days till the Cardinals open the season against the Saints, we look at the players who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[247,265,375,390,2604,1327,7,10934,1823,20842,12377,12352,226,1184,12378,248,267,246,206,255,88,6,35196,245,264,10935,1602,2517,1982,9,266,1980,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-238277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals","12":"tag-arizonacardinals","13":"tag-cardinals","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-haason","16":"tag-haason-reddick","17":"tag-hub","18":"tag-jesse","19":"tag-jesse-luketa","20":"tag-jets","21":"tag-listicle","22":"tag-luketa","23":"tag-national","24":"tag-national-sports","25":"tag-neutral","26":"tag-new","27":"tag-new-york-jets","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-nfl","30":"tag-nfl-hub","31":"tag-overall","32":"tag-overall-neutral","33":"tag-reddick","34":"tag-smg","35":"tag-smg-listicle","36":"tag-smg-timely","37":"tag-sports","38":"tag-sports-news","39":"tag-timely","40":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114920974548632319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}