TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona Cardinals running back Trey Benson will remain on injured reserve the rest of the season, coach Jonathan Gannon said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Benson will not be activated from IR before his 21-day practice window expires Wednesday, which means he won\u2019t play again this season.<\/p>\n
\u201c[He] just hasn\u2019t progressed to the point that he can go out there and play football right now,\u201d Gannon said.<\/p>\n
Benson went on IR on Oct. 1 after suffering a knee injury during Arizona\u2019s Week 4 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on \u201cThursday Night Football.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the time, Gannon said that he wasn\u2019t sure at which point during the game Benson suffered the injury but that he believed the running back played hurt for some portion of the game. Benson then had meniscus arthroscopic surgery, ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter reported, which was expected to sideline the second-year player for four to six weeks.<\/p>\n
Benson was designated to return from IR on Nov. 19 and had until Wednesday to be activated.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Gannon said that he hoped Benson \u201ckeeps making progress and turning the corner. I want to see him out there. When he is ready to go, he will go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he announced Wednesday that Benson would be done for the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know he\u2019s disappointed, and we\u2019re disappointed,\u201d Gannon said.<\/p>\n
Gannon also said left tackle Paris Johnson Jr. will not play in Sunday\u2019s game at the Houston Texans. Johnson left Sunday\u2019s loss to the Los Angeles Rams with a knee injury and did not return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona Cardinals running back Trey Benson will remain on injured reserve the rest of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[100980,49,48,514,82,148045],"class_list":["post-337373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals-sports-football-team-team-statscom-355","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-trey-benson-sports-football-player-player-statscom-1248031"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}