The Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers each only have one player on their rosters who played for the other team. In some games this season, the Cardinals have had as many as eight player connections with an opponent.
Who are the two this week?
Starting center A.Q. Shipley was actually drafted by the Steelers in the seventh round in 2009. He spent that season on their practice squad.
Steelers long snapper Kameron Canaday was with the Cardinals briefly as an undrafted rookie in 2016. He signed with the team and won the starting job but was released only three games later.
The two teams share some coaching connections, but when it comes to players, there aren’t many this year, which is a change from the last decade, where the Cardinals were jokingly known as Steelers West, as Whisenhunt and Bruce Arians were former Steelers assistants and brought in many Steelers over the years to play for the Cardinals.
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