{"id":400138,"date":"2026-01-11T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400138\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:37:08","slug":"panthers-left-tackle-ickey-ekwonu-ruled-out-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400138\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers left tackle Ickey Ekwonu ruled out with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/newton_david.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>David NewtonJan 10, 2026, 05:20 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>David Newton is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Carolina Panthers. Newton began covering Carolina in 1995 and came to ESPN in 2006 as a NASCAR reporter before joining NFL Nation in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"647c27bf-ab86-550e-5b83-91c29e73e4a9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> left tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4427132\/ikem-ekwonu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ickey Ekwonu<\/a> suffered a knee injury and was ruled out of the rest of Saturday&#8217;s NFC wild-card game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2e1473b2-e269-fd7a-1137-c1edacb85986\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lar\/los-angeles-rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ekwonu was injured during the first quarter and was replaced by veteran <a data-player-guid=\"74eb564d-851c-62ba-6298-a25579ee4315\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3871880\/yosh-nijman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yosh Nijman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ekwonu underwent an MRI on a knee in a mid-December game because he was feeling discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth pick of the 2022 draft missed the following week&#8217;s game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David NewtonJan 10, 2026, 05:20 PM ET CloseDavid Newton is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-400138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400138","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=400138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}