{"id":646946,"date":"2026-01-02T01:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/646946\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:50:14","slug":"arizona-cardinals-add-another-auburn-alumnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/646946\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals add another Auburn alumnus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"J74IE7GPJVHUJP3BBPQ26BMIXY\">For the second time this week, the Arizona Cardinals have added an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/auburnfootball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/auburnfootball\/\">Auburn<\/a> alumnus to their 53-man active roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LYLI5MOQNNEFXNPOIRWPKRQKTQ\">On Tuesday, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2025\/12\/former-auburn-tight-end-eligible-to-make-his-nfl-debut-after-team-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2025\/12\/former-auburn-tight-end-eligible-to-make-his-nfl-debut-after-team-change.html\"> Cardinals signed<\/a> tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/topic\/Rivaldo%20Fairweather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/topic\/Rivaldo%20Fairweather\/\">Rivaldo Fairweather <\/a>from the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 practice squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7Y2TELJFDVAJ5GEDYPGV4FOM4U\">On Thursday, Arizona was awarded linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/topic\/Austin%20Keys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/topic\/Austin%20Keys\/\">Austin Keys<\/a> off waivers by the NFL. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NN6KLMGKHBDEVE55WNQJK2L3AI\">The Minnesota Vikings waived the rookie on Wednesday after he had eight defensive snaps and 191 special-teams plays in 11 games in 2025. Keys didn\u2019t last long: The Cardinals hold the No. 5 slot in the waiver-claiming order this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E4YVFZYAYVHSFAFUFQUT6A4OK4\">Arizona picked up Keys after putting rookie safety Kitan Crawford on injured reserve. In 15 games this season, Crawford had appeared on 319 special-teams plays for the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BIYW5KQGXFGTJEUYZGLEK2E4UU\">Arizona concludes its 2025 season against the Los Angeles Rams at 3:25 p.m. Sunday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GAAQPKZVY5GCNM6FQIAYUP73BU\">FOR MORE OF AL.COM\u2019S COVERAGE OF THE NFL, GO TO OUR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/nfl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NQMDZSLCTJCNBK3SOGHKHOLNFY\">Keys entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie in May, then made the Vikings\u2019 regular-season roster coming out of the preseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HQENFABGAJG63B3F4YLNYV4OCY\">Keys played all eight of his defensive snaps for Minnesota in a 48-10 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sept. 21, when he recorded a sack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"INPTCMFYRZCJVEFNX3FUHYND5A\">Keys played for Auburn during the 2023 and 2024 seasons after starting his college career with three seasons at Ole Miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second time this week, the Arizona Cardinals have added an Auburn alumnus to their 53-man active&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[94241,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,31185],"class_list":{"0":"post-646946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-0a4a9763","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nflraw25"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115823000938101280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646946","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=646946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}