{"id":856113,"date":"2026-09-22T02:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856113\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T02:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:18:12","slug":"cardinals-cb-will-johnson-has-a-neck-injury-that-could-end-his-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856113\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals CB Will Johnson has a neck injury that could end his season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinals cornerback Will Johnson\u2019s season might be finished.<\/p>\n<p>He was injured late in Sunday\u2019s loss to the Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Mike LaFleur said Monday that a neck injury could end Johnson\u2019s season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, Will\u2019s got a neck [injury],\u201d LaFleur said, via Cardinals sideline reporter Paul Calvisi. \u201cPotentially he could miss the whole season. Sucks for him, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaFleur said the team does not believe Johnson will require surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson played only 12 games in 2025 because of back, hip and groin injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Slot cornerback Garrett Williams continues to work his way back from an Achilles injury. Denzel Burke has started in the slot in Williams\u2019 absence. Cornerback Max Melton left Sunday\u2019s game with a toe injury, and LaFleur calls him day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals will lean on Kei\u2019Trel Clark and Kalen King in Johnson\u2019s absence. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what\u2019s great is: I think we had a deep corner room and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/cardinals\/onsi\/arizona-cardinals-face-nightmare-will-johnson-injury-update-with-season-in-jeopardy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here we are<\/a>,\u201d LaFleur said, via Donnie Druin of SI.com. \u201cGoing into Week 3 and again, you\u2019re sick for Will for obvious reasons. The person over the player, and then obviously, his teammates are sick for him, too. But hey, it\u2019s ball, and we move on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardinals cornerback Will Johnson\u2019s season might be finished. He was injured late in Sunday\u2019s loss to the Seahawks.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-856113","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\/856113","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=856113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}