{"id":245016,"date":"2025-07-29T09:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/245016\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:46:07","slug":"arizona-cardinals-to-play-play-no-59-of-nfl-top-100-twice-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/245016\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals to play play No. 59 of &#8216;NFL Top 100&#8217; twice in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, 7-2-1 in his last 10 games against the Cardinals, is No. 59 in the &#8216;NFL Top 100.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The NFL began its fifth week of announcing players in the &#8220;NFL Top 100&#8221; in 2025 on Monday. This week is for revealing players Nos. 51-60. Player No. 59, revealed Monday morning, is an NFC West rival the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" data-autotag=\"c6331531-478d-4c7a-b93a-28f5b26af3f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cardinals<\/a> will face twice this season.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" data-autotag=\"f489e821-d3f9-4cff-bec5-7eaa0f4b51cb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> quarterback Matthew Stafford comes in this year at No. 59 after being No. 42 a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple players spoke to his arm talent. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" data-autotag=\"1082767b-7fb4-4f44-b217-cdba2c3895e9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> cornerback Taron Johnson said Stafford can do things other quarterbacks can&#8217;t with ball placement and &#8220;can dice a defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rams running back Kyren Williams said, &#8220;I&#8217;m excited that he said that he&#8217;s willing to come back and play again because I really feel like we can go on a run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stafford has played well against the Cardinals. In his last 10 games against them, he is 7-2-1, dating back to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals will face him and the Rams in Week 14 at State Farm Stadium and then close out the regular season in Week 18 at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;NFL Top 100&#8217; opponents for Cardinals in 2025<\/p>\n<p>Of the revealed players in the top 100, the Cardinals will face 16 of them in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>QB Matthew Stafford, Los Angeles Rams (No. 59)WR Brian Thomas Jr., <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" data-autotag=\"0e187629-debe-49e8-9e02-83bd36ad3fcc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> (No. 61)RB Bijan Robinson, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta-falcons\/323\" data-autotag=\"55e278ca-caf0-429b-8b4a-caeb78bff5ff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> (No. 62)DE Josh Hines-Allen, Jacksonville Jaguars (No. 63)QB Jordan Love, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" data-autotag=\"2b76aec5-0d77-4545-9a2a-f864de5488eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> (No. 68)QB Sam Darnold, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" data-autotag=\"91fb7995-f6cd-4aa3-adbc-98eb39d76a79\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> (No. 72)RB Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers (No. 73)DT Vita Vea,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>\u00a0(No. 75)WR Tee Higgins, Cincinnati Bengals (No. 77)QB Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys (No. 79)DE Rashan Gary, Green Bay Packers (No. 80)RB Kyren Williams, LA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Rams<\/a>\u00a0(No. 85)S Jessie Bates III,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta-falcons\/323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a>\u00a0(No. 92)LB Lavonte David, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/362\" data-autotag=\"0975654b-7314-4c6a-8b1d-0052f65c0335\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> (No. 96)WR Drake London,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta-falcons\/323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a>\u00a0(No. 97)DL Leonard Williams, Seattle Seahawks (No. 99)<\/p>\n<p>Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire&#8217;s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/27gxR7Oml5yVPywhOG8KHR?si=cGJ0FN6aRBquiLus5nj7rw&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=05e790ef05a641b8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL9sICHPD_aT9zxnG7dJj6izJWgMhLMh_U&amp;si=rpNldnLNN-_DdW8R\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-rise-up-see-red-podcast\/id670822447?mt=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, 7-2-1 in his last 10 games against the Cardinals, is No. 59 in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[247,265,240,375,390,223,254,210,10498,4127,215,2935,4133,211,214,53,1327,6194,995,4130,224,7,27,345,24603,20842,212,125,213,1283,1071,1724,856,1829,1070,5994,4076,21487,9195,1184,10732,239,1014,58,2444,2611,1325,3310,32,248,267,88,6,35196,245,537,428,530,424,101,818,238,237,261,1602,2517,817,829,9,266,3177,819,209,250,27557,1727,2470,776,607],"class_list":{"0":"post-245016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-angeles","11":"tag-arizona","12":"tag-arizona-cardinals","13":"tag-atlanta","14":"tag-atlanta-falcons","15":"tag-bay","16":"tag-bijan","17":"tag-bijan-robinson","18":"tag-bills","19":"tag-brian","20":"tag-brian-thomas-jr","21":"tag-buccaneers","22":"tag-buffalo","23":"tag-buffalo-bills","24":"tag-cardinals","25":"tag-david","26":"tag-drake","27":"tag-drake-london","28":"tag-falcons","29":"tag-football","30":"tag-green","31":"tag-green-bay-packers","32":"tag-hines-allen","33":"tag-hub","34":"tag-jacksonville","35":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","36":"tag-jaguars","37":"tag-johnson","38":"tag-jordan","39":"tag-jordan-love","40":"tag-josh","41":"tag-josh-hines-allen","42":"tag-jr","43":"tag-kyren","44":"tag-kyren-williams","45":"tag-lavonte","46":"tag-lavonte-david","47":"tag-listicle","48":"tag-london","49":"tag-los","50":"tag-los-angeles","51":"tag-los-angeles-rams","52":"tag-losangeles","53":"tag-losangelesrams","54":"tag-love","55":"tag-matthew","56":"tag-matthew-stafford","57":"tag-national","58":"tag-national-sports","59":"tag-news","60":"tag-nfl","61":"tag-nfl-hub","62":"tag-overall","63":"tag-overall-positive","64":"tag-packers","65":"tag-positive","66":"tag-rams","67":"tag-robinson","68":"tag-scores","69":"tag-seahawks","70":"tag-seattle","71":"tag-seattle-seahawks","72":"tag-smg","73":"tag-smg-listicle","74":"tag-sport","75":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","76":"tag-sports","77":"tag-sports-news","78":"tag-stafford","79":"tag-statistics","80":"tag-tampa","81":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","82":"tag-taron","83":"tag-taron-johnson","84":"tag-thomas","85":"tag-u0026","86":"tag-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245016","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=245016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}