{"id":183003,"date":"2025-10-01T17:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183003\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:23:08","slug":"cardinals-placing-rb-trey-benson-knee-on-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183003\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals placing RB Trey Benson (knee) on injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8fc7b962-95e1-3cb8-6a7d-b499de9ad546\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> have taken another hit at running back, as <a data-player-guid=\"9c97df19-6b49-3379-ae1d-628b38d52995\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4429275\/trey-benson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Benson<\/a> is being placed on injured reserve due to a knee injury, coach Jonathan Gannon told reporters Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Benson is expected to return this season, Gannon said.<\/p>\n<p>Gannon said he wasn&#8217;t sure when exactly Benson was injured during Thursday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401772938\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">loss<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3767a23c-a17d-294f-288a-9086ad1f0680\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-seahawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> but that he believed the running back played through the injury for some portion of the contest. Benson told the Cardinals on Friday that he was sore.<\/p>\n<p>Benson had assumed the starting role in Week 4 after <a data-player-guid=\"19743ecc-58ac-c2a3-2a66-c99701051510\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3045147\/james-conner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Conner<\/a> suffered a season-ending foot injury the prior week against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"985a261f-296c-c95c-32a5-addc4df75001\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/sf\/san-francisco-49ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>. Benson rushed for 35 yards on eight carries and had five catches for 19 yards against the Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46423263\/nfl-week-5-power-rankings-poll-32-teams-2025-biggest-issues-offense\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nfl_power4_cr_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Benson sidelined, Gannon said he expects running backs <a data-player-guid=\"3f5c9898-aae1-cba7-4a32-2f013d91cb49\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4362478\/emari-demercado\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emari Demercado<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"68ae2298-7dd5-946f-914e-e5d9d1f9bed2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4240657\/michael-carter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Carter<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"0bcecc7d-c503-a34e-45a5-111cf0916faa\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4427728\/bam-knight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bam Knight<\/a> all to play Sunday against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0a0aea59-9a5e-01b3-57a3-0151cf4bf393\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ten\/tennessee-titans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Titans<\/a>. Those three have combined for five carries for the Cardinals this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals have taken another hit at running back, as Trey Benson is being placed on injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-183003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}