Jan. 11, 2026, 12:43 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Arizona Cardinals<\/a>\u00a0did not make the playoffs. They are in offseason mode looking ahead to making changes on the roster, and they are looking for a new head coach. However, a few former Cardinals<\/a> players find themselves in the postseason.<\/p>\n The second of three Sunday playoff games has the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> at the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n Between the 49ers and Eagles, there are three former Cardinals split between their rosters, reserves and practice squads.<\/p>\n Who are they?<\/p>\n 49ers OL Austen Pleasants<\/p>\n Pleasants was on the Cardinals’ roster in the 2024 offseason and on their practice squad that year. He played in 15 games for the Niners this season, starting once.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>49ers LB Kyzir White<\/p>\n White was signed to the San Francisco practice squad this week. He spent two seasons with the Cardinals as their starting “Mike” linebacker in 2023-2024.<\/p>\n Eagles WR Quez Watkins<\/p>\n Watkins is on Philly’s practice squad. He signed with the Cardinals last offseason, got hurt in training camp, was placed on injured reserve and released with a settlement. He signed with Philly’s practice squad in September.<\/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":"Jan. 11, 2026, 12:43 p.m. MT The\u00a0Arizona Cardinals\u00a0did not make the playoffs. They are in offseason mode looking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,95973,95974,95882,95890,95896,95888,95895,95899,96191,96090,96008,96071,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-671118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","16":"tag-sstsncardinals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagarizona-cardinals","19":"tag-tagnational-sports","20":"tag-tagnfl","21":"tag-tagnfl-hub","22":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","23":"tag-tagphiladelphia-eagles","24":"tag-tagsan-francisco-49ers","25":"tag-tagsmg-listicle","26":"tag-tagsmg-timely","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115881553773666182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671118","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=671118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}