Most stints with the same team

[NWebster]

I was surprised to see Bruce Irvin back with the Seahawks this season, that makes it his third stint with the same team interrupted by playing elsewhere. I can think of tons of two-stint players are there other threes, or fours, or more?

[ChrisBabcock]

Jason Taylor had 3 stints with the Dolphins. Jake Reed had 2 stints each with the Vikings and Saints.

[JuggernautJ]

George Halas had four different coaching "stints" with the Bears.
It helps to know the owner...

[Brian wolf]

It seemed like Bert Rechichar had three stints with the Colts because like Alex Hawkins later, Rech had a way of getting sent by teams back to Baltimore. Weeb Ewbank loved him as a tough competitor, even taking his suggestions at who needed to be cut from the team but Weeb didnt like Bert blowing money with the players in public and according to Fatso Donovan, Rechichar had ALOT of it ...

[Lee Elder]

George Allen had three stints as a coach with the Rams. He coached the receivers in 1957, only to be fired. Allen was the head coach of the Rams from 1966 through 1970. He was fired in 1968 but rehired a short time later. Then he was hired again in 1978, only to be fired after two pre-season games. He was fired four times by the Rams.

[Citizen]

Between playing and coaching, Zeke Bratkowski had four separate terms with the Packers.

[JWL]

You wouldn't know it from his PFR page but Vance Johnson had three separate stints with the Broncos. He played for the Broncos from 1985-92. After being traded to the Vikings in 1993, he was cut, and then rejoined the Broncos for the 1993 season. He signed with the Chargers as a free agent in 1994 but was released in training camp. Johnson resurfaced with the Broncos in 1995.

[JWL]

Kahlil Bell had two stints with the Bears in one season. He began the 2012 season with the Bears and finished it with the Bears but also played for the Jets.

[Jamie Johnson]

Jeremiah Trotter had three separate stints with the Eagles. 1998-2001, 2004-2006 and 2009

[Gary Najman]

Brian Hoyer has 4 different stints with the Patriots: 2009-11, 2017, 2018 (went to te 49ers in between), and the current one since 2020. He also has worn 3 different numbers with NE: 8, 2 and 5.