Stump Mitchell

College: The Citadel / Hometown: Kingsland, GA / DOB: March 15, 1959 A ninth-round selection (226th overall) by the Cardinals in the 1981 NFL Draft, Mitchell spent his entire nine-year NFL career with the Cardinals. He currently holds the franchise record with 11,988 all-purpose yards and ranks second all-time in rushing yards (4,649), punt return yards (1,377) and kickoff return yards (4,007), while also adding 1,955 career receiving yards. Mitchell's 42 career TDs are tied for the 10th best total in team annals. Mitchell posted 14 100-yard rushing games in his career and finished with a 4.7-yard rushing average, which ranks as the second-highest career mark in team history. He had a 5.6-yard rushing average in 1981 (31 for 175 yards), earning All-Rookie honors from Pro Football Weekly, who also awarded him All-NFC honors as a kickoff returner in 1984. In addition to his success on the field, Mitchell was also honored with the Chuck Drulis Award in 1982 and the Byron "Whizzer" White Humanitarian Award in 1984 for his work in the community. Mitchell's coaching career began in the spring of 1991 when he served as running backs coach for the San Antonio Rough Riders of the World League of American Football (WLAF). He then worked as the head coach at Casa Grande (AZ) High School (1991-94), where he led the team to the state playoffs in his second season. He began his NFL coaching career in 1999 and worked nine years as the running backs coach for the Seahawks under head coach Mike Holmgren. Mitchell joined the Cardinals in 2013, helping coach a group of Cardinals running backs that featured rookie Andre Ellington, who totaled 1,023 scrimmage yards (652 rushing, 371 receiving), becoming just the fifth rookie in team history to surpass 1,000 yards from scrimmage. His 5.53-yard rushing average led all NFL players with a minimum of 100 rushing attempts and was the highest average for any rookie in team history and the highest for a Cardinals running back since John David Crow (5.85) in 1960. Combined with veteran Rashard Mendenhall (687 yards and eight TDs), the 2013 season marked the first time since 1988 that the Cardinals had two players with 600+ rushing yards in a season.