Zach Pekale | NCAA.com | September 10, 2020

Every DII and DIII player on a 2020 NFL roster

West Florida is crowned the DII Football National Champion

The 2020 NFL season has arrived and the rosters include many players who played DII and DIII football.

Here's a look at all DII and DIII football players on 2020 NFL 53-man rosters.

DII football players on NFL rosters

(NOTE: Players included are strictly limited to those on active 53-man rosters on NFL.com as of Saturday, Sept. 5.)

NFL TEAM	PLAYER	COLLEGE
Arizona Cardinals	Dennis Gardeck	Sioux Falls
Atlanta Falcons	John Cominsky	Charleston (WV)
Baltimore Ravens	Matthew Judon	GVSU
	Brandon Williams	Missouri Southern
Buffalo Bills	John Brown	Pittsburg State
Carolina Panthers	Alex Armah	West Georgia
	Trenton Cannon	Virginia State
	Chris Reed	Minnesota State
	Seth Roberts	West Alabama
	Brandon Zylstra *	Augustana (SD) *
Chicago Bears	Marqui Christian	Midwestern State
Cleveland Browns	Tavierre Thomas	Ferris State
Dallas Cowboys	Greg Zuerlein	Missouri Western
	Chris Jones	Carson-Newman
Denver Broncos	Jonathan Harris	Lindenwood
Green Bay Packers	Malik Taylor	Ferris State
Houston Texans	Tyrell Adams	West Georgia
Indianapolis Colts	Ashton Dulin	Malone
	Kenny Moore II	Valdosta State
	E.J. Speed **	Tarleton State **
	Grover Stewart	Albany State
Jacksonville Jaguars	Keelan Cole	Kentucky Wesleyan
Kansas City Chiefs	Tyreek Hill	West Alabama
	Nick Keizer	GVSU
	Tershawn Wharton	Missouri S&T
	Mike Pennel	CSU-Pueblo
Las Vegas Raiders	Denzelle Good	Mars Hill
	Erik Harris	Cal (PA)
	Jeff Heath	Saginaw Valley State
	Eric Kush	Cal (PA)
	Tyrell Williams	Western Oregon
Los Angeles Chargers	Austin Ekeler	Western State
	Jason Moore	Findlay
	Trey Pipkins	Sioux Falls
Los Angeles Rams	Morgan Fox	CSU-Pueblo
Miami Dolphins	Adam Shaheen	Ashland
	Zach Sieler	Ferris State
Minnesota Vikings	C.J. Ham	Augustana (SD)
	Adam Thielen	Minnesota State
New England Patriots	Kyle Dugger	Lenoir-Rhyne
	Gunner Olszewski	Bemidji State
New Orleans Saints	Deonte Harris	Assumption
New York Giants	Corey Ballentine	Washburn
	Rysen John	Simon Fraser
New York Jets	Pierre Desir	Lindenwood
	Nathan Shepherd	Fort Hays State
	Vyncint Smith	Limestone
Pittsburgh Steelers	Matt Feiler	Bloomsburg
Seattle Seahawks	David Moore	East Central (OK)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Alex Cappa	Humboldt State
	John Hurst	West Georgia
	Ryan Jensen	CSU-Pueblo
	Zach Triner	Assumption
Tennessee Titans	Malcolm Butler	West Alabama

* — Zylstra played his redshirt-freshman season with Augustana before transferring to DIII Concordia College.
** — Speed played at Tarleton State before the Texans moved to FCS.

This is the fourth season we've tracked DII football stars in the NFL. We started in 2017, when 90 DII players made cuts across the league. That number dropped to 83 players in 2018 and there were 49 players on NFL rosters for the 2019 season. In 2020, there will be 54 former DII football players on opening day rosters.

Here are a few other notable numbers from our data:

3 — Schools with the most DII players on 2020 NFL rosters. West Alabama (Tyreek Hill, Malcolm Butler, Seth Roberts), West Georgia (Alex Armah, John Hurst, Tyrell Adams) and Ferris State (Zach Sieler, Tavierre Thomas, Malik Taylor) each had three players make the cut this year.

5 — DII players on the Las Vegas Raiders and Carolina Panthers, the most out of any NFL teams. Right behind them are the Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers with four players apiece.

27 — Teams with at least one DII football alum, an increase from 26 last season. The Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers and Washington Football Team do not carry a DII player on its 53-man roster.

DIII football players on NFL rosters

NFL TEAM	PLAYER	COLLEGE
Arizona Cardinals	Dan Arnold	Wisconsin-Platteville
Atlanta Falcons	Matt Gono	Wesley College
Jacksonville Jaguars	Ben Bartch	St. John's (Minn.)
Las Vegas Raiders	Derek Carrier	Beloit
	Nicholas Morrow	Greenville
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Ali Marpet	Hobart