The NFL’s Super Wild-Card Weekend was not super for most of the former Alabama players participating in it.

During the 2023 regular season, 72 former Crimson Tide players got on the field, the most from one college program in one season in NFL history.

The Alabama alumni followed that by producing the most players on the active rosters of the 14 postseason teams with 28.

But after the six games of the Super Wild-Card Weekend, there are nine former Tide players on the active rosters of the eight teams remaining in the Super Bowl LVIII tournament.

On active rosters, Alabama has five former players on the Houston Texans, three on the Detroit Lions and one on the Baltimore Ravens. Houston and Baltimore play on Saturday in the first of four games during the Divisional Weekend.

Six college programs have more of their players on postseason active rosters now than Alabama, with Penn State’s 13 leading the way. There are 12 players apiece from Florida, Georgia and Iowa and 10 each from Michigan and Ohio State.

When the playoffs started, only LSU was guaranteed of getting an alumnus to Super Bowl LVIII. The Tigers had at least one former player on the active rosters of all seven AFC playoff teams. With the field reduced to four teams on each side of the bracket, Iowa, Penn State and Texas have joined LSU as college programs assured of Super Bowl LVIII representation.

No college program is as yet assured of having a winning player in Super Bowl LVIII.

Fourteen of the past 15 Super Bowls have featured at least one former Alabama player on the field. The exception was Super Bowl LV, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9 on Feb. 7, 2021. Former Tide tight end O.J. Howard was on injured reserve and couldn’t play for the Bucs.

Auburn has five former players on the active rosters of the playoff teams, down from eight when the postseason started. The Tigers have three former players on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and two on the Green Bay Packers. Jacksonville State, Samford and South Alabama still have one former player apiece alive.

Every SEC team has at least three former players remaining in the postseason as the conference has a total of 85 – 20 percent of the active-roster slots.

The postseason active rosters also include 12 former Alabama high school stars.

The players with Alabama football roots on the rosters of the playoff teams include:

AFC

Baltimore Ravens

· Injured reserve: Jalyn Armour-Davis, cornerback, St. Paul’s Episcopal, Alabama

· Malik Cunningham, quarterback, Park Crossing

· Practice squad: Tyrell Doss, guard, Aliceville

· Marlon Humphrey, cornerback, Hoover, Alabama

· Practice squad: Tashawn Manning, guard, Auburn

· Practice squad: Christian Matthew, cornerback, Samford

· Jeremiah Moon, linebacker, Hoover

· Michael Pierce, defensive tackle, Daphne, Samford

Buffalo Bills

· Injured reserve: Damien Harris, running back, Alabama

· Siran Neal, cornerback, Eufaula, Jacksonville State

· Practice squad: Tyrell Shavers, wide receiver, Alabama

Houston Texans

· Will Anderson Jr., defensive end, Alabama

· Nico Collins, wide receiver, Clay-Chalkville

· Injured reserve: Tank Dell, wide receiver, Alabama A&M

· Christian Harris, linebacker, Alabama

· Injured reserve: Tytus Howard, offensive tackle, Monroe County, Alabama State

· Kareem Jackson, safety, Alabama

· John Metchie III, wide receiver, Alabama

· Henry To’oTo’o, linebacker, Alabama

· Injured reserve: Jimmie Ward, safety, Davidson

· Injured reserve: Kilian Zierer, offensive tackle, Auburn

Kansas City Chiefs

· Practice squad: Isaiah Buggs, defensive lineman, Alabama

· Neil Farrell Jr., defensive tackle, Murphy

· Practice squad: Chris Oladokun, quarterback, Samford

· La’Mical Perine, running back, Theodore

· Practice squad: Gerrit Prince, tight end, UAB

· Justyn Ross, wide receiver, Central-Phenix City

· Kadarius Toney, wide receiver, Blount

· Injured reserve: Prince Tega Wanogho, offensive tackle, Edgewood Academy, Auburn

· Practice squad: Montrell Washington, wide receiver, Samford

NFC

Detroit Lions

· Brian Branch, defensive back, Alabama

· Jahmyr Gibbs, running back, Alabama

· Brodric Martin, defensive lineman, Northridge, North Alabama

· Jameson Williams, wide receiver, Alabama

Green Bay Packers

· Anders Carlson, kicker, Auburn

· Practice squad: Grant DuBose, wide receiver, Park Crossing

· Injured reserve: Rudy Ford, safety, New Hope, Auburn

· Practice squad: Zyon Gilbert, cornerback, Jeff Davis

· Practice squad: Kadeem Telfort, offensive tackle, UAB

· Colby Wooden, defensive lineman, Auburn

San Francisco 49ers

· Injured reserve: Cameron Latu, tight end, Alabama

· Darrell Luter Jr., cornerback, South Alabama

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

· K.J. Britt, inside linebacker, Oxford, Auburn

· Carlton Davis, cornerback, Auburn

· Jamel Dean, cornerback, Auburn

· Practice squad: Keenan Isaac, cornerback, Midfield, Alabama State

· Practice squad: Cephus Johnson III, wide receiver, Davidson, South Alabama

· Practice squad: Logan Stenberg, guard, James Clemens

The schedule for the Divisional Weekend of the NFL playoffs (with all times Central and point spreads from Catena):

Saturday, Jan. 20

· AFC: No. 4 Houston Texans (11-7) at No. 1 Baltimore Ravens (11-6), 3:30 p.m. (ABC, ESPN) Line: Ravens by 9.5

· NFC: No. 7 Green Bay Packers (10-8) at No. 1 San Francisco 49ers (12-5), 7 p.m. (FOX) Line: 49ers by 9.5

Sunday, Jan. 21

· NFC: No. 4 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (10-8) at No. 3 Detroit Lions (13-5), 2 p.m. (NBC, Peacock) Line: Lions by 6.5

· AFC: No. 3 Kansas City Chiefs (12-6) at No. 2 Buffalo Bills (12-6), 5:30 p.m. (CBS, Paramount+) Line: Bills by 2.5

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.