{"id":201951,"date":"2025-10-04T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/201951\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:33:10","slug":"cardinals-max-melton-dealing-with-hamstring-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/201951\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; Max Melton: Dealing with hamstring issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/ARI\/arizona-cardinals\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/404.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/3177371\/melton\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melton<\/a> (hamstring) is listed as questionable ahead of Sunday&#8217;s matchup against the Titans.<\/p>\n<p>Melton practiced in full all week, but it now appears he&#8217;s sustained a hamstring injury that could sidelined him in Week 5. The second-year corner has tallied 14 total tackles and three passes defended through Arizona&#8217;s first four games this season. If he&#8217;s forced to miss Sunday&#8217;s contest, Elijah Jones is likely to see increased work with the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/ARI\/arizona-cardinals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cardinals<\/a>&#8216; first-team defense.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melton (hamstring) is listed as questionable ahead of Sunday&#8217;s matchup against the Titans. Melton practiced in full all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1829,27556,399,116298,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-201951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-fantasy-football","tag-football","tag-max-melton","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}