Jan. 17, 2026, 6:16 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\u00a0Cardinals<\/a>\u00a0players find themselves in the postseason.<\/p>\n In the divisional round on Saturday, the second game features the NFC West with the San Francisco 49ers facing the Seattle Seahawks<\/a> in Seattle. .<\/p>\n Between the two teams, on their rosters and practice squads, there are three former Cardinals<\/a>.<\/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 last week. He spent two seasons with the Cardinals as their starting “Mike” linebacker in 2023-2024.<\/p>\n Seahawks OL Josh Jones<\/p>\n Jones was a third-round pick of the Cardinals in 2020. He played three seasons for them. He signed with the Seahawks this past offseason and, when left tackle Charles Cross was out with an injury, started three games.<\/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. 17, 2026, 6:16 p.m. MT The\u00a0Arizona Cardinals\u00a0did not make the playoffs. They are in offseason mode looking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,95973,95974,95882,95890,97921,95896,95888,95895,95899,95977,96008,96071,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-686027","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-tagcharles-cross","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagseattle-seahawks","25":"tag-tagsmg-listicle","26":"tag-tagsmg-timely","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115915075319466966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686027","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=686027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}