The Cardinals placed quarterback Gardner Minshew and wide receiver Michael Wilson on injured reserve Tuesday, the team announced.
Minshew tore the UCL in his elbow and will miss the rest of the season. Wilson’s neck injury will end his season.
“Not the ending I had envisioned, but grateful for the journey,” Wilson wrote on social media. “Regardless of what happens, my love for the game will never change! Thank you for all the love and support. The story is still being written.”
Wilson played eight games in 2026, making 51 receptions for 546 yards and two touchdowns.
In two appearances, Minshew completed 38 of 53 passes for 354 yards and three touchdowns, and led the Cardinals to an overtime win in Dallas in Week 8. He is scheduled to be a free agent at the end of the season.
The Cardinals signed veteran quarterback Josh Johnson and rookie quarterback Joey Aguilar to back up rookie Carson Beck. Beck will get his first NFL start on Sunday against the Rams.
Aguilar was on the Jaguars’ practice squad, and Johnson was on the Bengals’ practice squad.
The Cardinals also signed receiver Phillip Dorsett II to the practice squad and released tight end Rivaldo Fairweather and running back Jermar Jefferson from the practice squad.
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After trading quarterback Jacoby Brissett, and then losing his replacement Gardner Minshew to a potentially season-ending elbow injury, the Cardinals are bringing in quarterback reinforcements.
Joey Aguilar will join the Cardinals’ 53-player roster from the Jaguars’ practice squad, according to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.
The 25-year-old Aguilar was the starting quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers last season and spent a total of seven years in college football, with two at City College of San Francisco, two at Diablo Valley College and two at Appalachian State before transferring to Tennessee.
The only healthy quarterback in Arizona right now is rookie Carson Beck. Josh Johnson is expected to join the Cardinals as well, and Aguilar will presumably be the third quarterback for the Cardinals.
Quarterback Josh Johnson’s long list of NFL teams is getting a little longer.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the Cardinals will sign Johnson off of the Bengals’ practice squad. It will be Johnson’s first stint in Arizona, which makes them the 15th NFL team he has played for since entering the league with the Buccaneers in 2008.
The Cardinals are in need of quarterback health because Gardner Minshew is likely out for the season with an elbow injury. Rookie Carson Beck is the only other quarterback on the 53-man roster or practice squad.
Johnson did not appear in any games for the Bengals. He made two starts for Washington last season.
Cardinals quarterback Gardner Minshew’s first start of the season may also be his last.
Minshew will likely need season-ending elbow surgery to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament, according to ESPN.
Nothing is official as Minshew is seeking additional medical opinions.
Minshew took a hit at the end of the second quarter on Sunday and appeared to have hurt his elbow, but he was back for the start of the third quarter, and he played every offensive snap for the Cardinals.
The Cardinals just traded Jacoby Brissett, who had started every game this season until Minshew started on Sunday, and now the only healthy quarterback on their roster is rookie third-round pick Carson Beck. The Cardinals will need to add at least one more quarterback to the roster this week before Sunday’s game against the Rams.
Cardinals quarterback Gardner Minshew remained in Sunday’s loss to the Seahawks after hurting his right arm late in the first half, but his status for the team’s Week 10 game against the Rams is not certain.
Head coach Mike LaFleur said at a Monday press conference that Minshew is undergoing tests on his arm and he said it is a possibility that he will not be able to play this week.
The Cardinals traded Jacoby Brissett to the Ravens last week, which puts third-round pick Carson Beck in position to start if Minshew is unable to play. Beck has not appeared in any games yet this season.
Minshew’s injury is one of several negative injury updates LaFleur delivered on Monday. He also announced that wide receiver Michael Wilson is out for the year with a neck injury and that center Hjalte Froholdt is in the concussion protocol.
Cardinals teammates Darius Robinson and Josh Sweat got into an on-field disagreement during Sunday’s 17-3 loss to the Seahawks.
Robinson jumped offsides on third-and-12, extending a Seattle drive. The TV broadcast showed Sweat visibly frustrated, jawing at Robinson and pushing him away. Robinson then grabbed Sweat’s jersey.
A few plays later, Sweat jumped offsides on third-and-5.
Coach Mike LaFleur downplayed the incident postgame.
“It’s an emotional game,” LaFleur said, via video from PHNX_Cardinals. “Those guys all got each other’s backs. Me and my brother {Matt] yell at each other, too, sometimes. They’re brothers. They’re fine. We know if there’s an issue. There’s no issue.
“With that being said, we need to do right. We need to do right longer and all that pre-snap stuff. We’re better than that.”
The Cardinals have lost their top wide receiver for the rest of the season.
Head coach Mike LaFleur said at his Monday press conference that Michael Wilson will miss the rest of the team’s games. Wilson suffered a fracture in his neck a few snaps into Sunday’s loss to the Seahawks and will be placed on injured reserve.
Wilson had 51 catches for 546 yards and two touchdowns in the first nine games of the season. He signed a three-year extension with the team after posting 78 catches for 1,006 yards last season.
The Cardinals traded Marvin Harrison Jr. to the Texans earlier this season. Simi Fehoko, Devin Duvernay, Reggie Virgil, and Harrison Wallace are the remaining wide receivers on the Arizona roster.
After four unproductive games with the Cardinals to start this season, wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. was traded to the Texans. After three games in Houston, Harrison remains unproductive.
Harrison had five catches for 85 yards and one touchdown with the Cardinals this season before he was traded, and he has six catches for 60 yards and one touchdown with the Texans since the trade.
While Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud was finding open receivers all over the field in Sunday’s win over the Chargers, Harrison was largely invisible. Stroud threw for 384 yards and five touchdowns; Harrison caught just two passes and was sixth on the team with 20 receiving yards, and he was not one of the four Texans receivers to catch a touchdown pass.
Two and a half seasons into his NFL career, Harrison has fallen far short of the hype that he had entering the NFL, as the son of a Hall of Fame wide receiver and the fourth overall pick in the 2024 NFL draft. So far, a change of scenery hasn’t helped.
Seahawks quarterback Drew Lock did today what he’s done three times this season: Played mistake-free football and led Seattle to a win.
Lock, playing once again for an injured Sam Darnold, was steady and efficient as the Seahawks controlled the game and beat the Cardinals 17-3.
Is Lock a better quarterback than Darnold? Probably not, but Lock might be better for what the Seahawks need right now, which is a quarterback who can play mistake-free football and let the defense win the game. Darnold has thrown nine interceptions this season, while Lock has thrown none.
Today Lock completed 19 of 28 passes for 175 yards and one touchdown. Not spectacular numbers, but the key numbers were zeroes: Zero interceptions, zero fumbles, zero sacks. Darnold has far more negative plays than Lock does this season, and that’s one of the reasons the Seahawks are 3-0 in the three games that have been primarily quarterbacked by Lock, and 2-4 in the six games that have primarily been quarterbacked by Darnold.
At 5-4, the Seahawks aren’t the team they hoped to be heading into this season, but they’re very much in contention. And they might just have a better chance of making the playoffs and getting an opportunity to defend their title if Lock keeps playing.
Seahawks tight end AJ Barner made the most of his opportunities in the first half today.
Barner only touched the ball four times in the first half, but two of them were touchdowns: He took the snap and ran up the middle for a touchdown on a tush push, and he also caught a seven-yard pass from Drew Lock for a receiving touchdown.
Those are the only two touchdowns in a game the Seahawks are leading 14-3 early in the third quarter.
At the end of the second quarter, Cardinals quarterback Gardner Minshew took a hard hit from Dante Fowler and appeared to injure his throwing arm, but he was back on the field for the start of the third quarter.
Cardinals rookie quarterback Carson Beck has been warming up, and it’s possible that he’ll see some action in the second half, but for now it’s Minshew’s job to dig the Cardinals out of their hole.
