Connor Senger is in his fifth season with the Cardinals and second as pass game specialist after he was promoted on 2/12/25. He was promoted in three straight years after serving as assistant quarterbacks coach in 2024 and an offensive quality control coach in 2023. Senger originally joined Arizona's staff on 3/30/22 as part of the Bill Bidwill Coaching Fellowship assisting with Cardinals quarterbacks.Â
Last season with the Cardinals, QB Jacoby Brissett set career-highs for completions (315), pass attempts (485), passing yards (3,366), completion percentage (64.9%), passing TDs (23) and passer rating (94.1) after starting 12 games. His 23 TD passes and 3,366 passing yards were both the most in franchise history in a player's first 12 starts. During his time as a starter (Week 6-18), Brissett led the NFL in completions, ranked 2nd in passing yards and 3rd in TD passes.
Despite starting two different quarterbacks, the Cardinals finished with the NFL's 7th ranked passing attack (232.6 ypg), the team's highest ranking since 2015 (2nd). Arizona also had 29 passing TDs, good for 7th in the league. The Cardinals were one of four teams in the NFL to have multiple players with 1,000+ receiving yards as TE Trey McBride (1,239) and WR Michael Wilson (1,006) combined for 204 receptions, 2,245 receiving yards and 18 TD catches.
Cardinals QB Kyler Murray started all 17 games in 2024 and threw for 3,851 yards and 21 TDs with a 93.5 passer rating and also ran for 572 yards and five TDs. It was his 4th season with 20+ TDs and his 4th with 3,000+ passing yards, tying Neil Lomax for the most seasons in franchise history with 3,000+ passing yards and 20+ TDs. Murray became the third-youngest player in NFL history to reach 19,000 passing yards and 3,000 rushing yards in his career. Murray returned from a serious knee injury suffered in 2022 and started the final eight games in 2023, throwing for 1,799 yards and 10 TDs while rushing for 244 yards and 3 TDs. With Murray under center, the Cardinals had the 9th ranked offense in the NFL (362.8 ypg) and averaged 22.4 points per game.
Over the past three years, Senger was selected to serve as an assistant coach in a college All-Star game. In 2026, he was the offensive coordinator for the East team at the East-West Shrine Bowl. In 2025 he was the wide receivers coach for the West team at the Shrine Bowl and he worked as the wide receivers coach for the American team at the Senior Bowl in 2024.
The Cardinals established the Bill Bidwill Coaching Fellowship prior to the 2015 season. It was designed to increase diversity and create additional opportunities to gain coaching experience at the highest level. Senger was the program's fifth participant.
Senger came to the Cardinals after working as an offensive quality control coordinator for two seasons (2020-21) at North Dakota State, including in 2021 when the Bison won the FCS National Championship. At NDSU, Senger assisted with opponent breakdowns while helping to run quarterback meetings and overall quarterback development. He also worked with the Bison special teams units, assisted with the play calling process and contributed to recruiting. Prior to coming to the Cardinals, Senger was the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Central Washington where he was hired in February, 2022.
Senger served as the quarterbacks coach at Carroll University in Wisconsin in 2018 and worked as the running backs coach for Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2019. The Warhawks were the Division III national runner-up during Senger's one year at the school.
A former collegiate quarterback at the University of Wisconsin (2013-14), Senger played his final two seasons at Wisconsin-Oshkosh before beginning his coaching career at the school as the team's quarterbacks coach in 2017. He was a part of two conference championships at UW-Oshkosh as both a player and a coach and helped quarterback Brett Kasper win the 2017 Gagliardi Trophy as the top player in Division III in 2017.
While at Wisconsin, Senger was named the team's Offensive Scout Team Player of the Year in each of his two seasons at the school. Prior to walking on at Wisconsin, Senger was a three-year captain at Pius XI (Milwaukee, WI) High School and threw for 4,564 passing yards and 37 TDs while also running for 2,190 yards with 39 TDs in his career. He earned his bachelor's degree from UW-Oshkosh in Political Science.