Who is in
Every player who appeared in a regular-season or postseason game for the franchise since 1920, Chicago through Arizona. 2,146 names through 2025, plus 2026 additions. Counting stats are Cardinals-only. Games, years, and position come from the franchise tables. Yards, touchdowns, sacks, interceptions, kicking points, and punts are filled the same way. A one-season stay uses that season as the peak. Pro Bowl and first-team All-Pro counts are Cardinals seasons only. A Pro Bowl or All-Pro earned with another team does not count. A name with no counting line stays on the board and is not treated as a group leader.
Index mix
Production 40. Peak 20. Longevity 20. Legacy 20.
Each pillar is scored raw, then stretched so its leader is 100. Idx is the weighted mix of those four 0-100 scores.
Production
The board lists position, yards, touchdowns, defensive counting, and games. Yards are the primary pile in a Cardinals jersey. Passing yards for quarterbacks. Rushing yards for running backs. Receiving yards for receivers and tight ends. Def is interceptions for defensive backs and sacks for linemen and linebackers.
Scored inside a position group. A receiver is measured against receivers. A quarterback is measured against quarterbacks. Volume is still the base. A rate counts only after a real sample, and a missing rate follows the volume instead of scoring as a zero. That is why a 2-for-2 kicker is not perfect, and why Larry Wilson is not punished for playing before passes defended were written down.
Kickers: points 28, field goals made 12, field-goal percentage 28, extra-point percentage 12, from 40 and out 12, from 50 and out 8. The percentage needs 50 field goals, 40 extra points, 20 kicks from 40-plus, or 10 from 50-plus. Punters: yards 22, punts 13, gross average 25, net average 22, inside-the-20 rate 18, after 200 punts. Quarterbacks: yards 30, touchdowns 18, games 10, completion percentage 14, yards per attempt 14, interception percentage 14, after 200 throws. Interception percentage runs the other way. Fewer is better. Running backs: yards 35, touchdowns 25, games 15, yards per carry 25, after 150 carries. Receivers: yards 35, touchdowns 25, games 15, yards per catch 25, after 80 catches. Defensive backs: interceptions 35, passes defended 25, games 20, touchdowns 20. Passes defended count only when the number is at least as big as the interceptions. An incomplete old total is ignored. Front seven: sacks 40, tackles for loss 20, games 20, touchdowns 20. Tackles for loss are modern. An older player keeps his sack share in that slot. The offensive line stays games, years, and Pro Bowls. There is no honest rate for that job across a century.
Peak
One best Cardinals season, one row per player. It is not every season. Jim Hart had a dozen years over 1,000 passing yards. He still takes one line. Skill mix is peak yards 55 and peak touchdowns 45. That season is not discounted for a short career. Longevity is a different board. The games column is gone here because it was the career total, not the season. Defenders and the offensive line do not have a trustworthy single season, so their peak is the career total, with a forty-eight-game floor so a cup of coffee cannot win it. Then the leader is stretched to 100.
Longevity
Same idea as the Suns board. How long you were here, not what you did. Starts 60. Years 20. Games 20. League-wide, not by position. Then the leader is stretched to 100.
Legacy
Honors first, and individual honors stack. Pro Bowl 32. First-team All-Pro 16. Hall of Fame 18 when the Cardinals career is why he is in Canton. A player who is not eligible yet, and whose Cardinals career is already a Hall case, gets half of that. The bar is eight Pro Bowls here, or seven with two first-team All-Pros. Patrick Peterson and Budda Baker. Half comes off if he becomes eligible and the voters pass. A rental who went in, or might go in, for another team gets none of that. Edgerrin James, Emmitt Smith, Don Maynard, Jim Thorpe, Isaac Bruce, Alan Faneca, and Guy Chamberlin are in the Hall. They did not do it here. Franchise icon 8. NFL title 8. Super Bowl as a Cardinal 6. Playoff games 6. MVP 6. A Super Bowl roster spot or one playoff run is a team trip. It does not outrank a Pro Bowl career. Pro Bowl, All-Pro, and MVP count only while they were Cardinals.
Icon credit is reserved. Fitzgerald, Warner, Wilson, Aeneas Williams, Trippi, Nevers, Tillman.
All-Cardinals Teams
First, second, and third teams from the same Index. Eleven on offense, eleven on defense, then kicker and punter. Offense: QB, RB, WR1, WR2, WR3, TE, LT, LG, C, RG, RT. Defense: LDE, LDT, RDT, RDE, WLB, MLB, SLB, LCB, FS, SS, RCB. Unique names. A higher overall Index can miss a team if the slot is stacked. Offensive line, defensive line, linebacker, and secondary slots use the player's real position, then Index inside that slot.