{"id":495593,"date":"2025-09-22T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495593"},"modified":"2025-09-22T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:53:08","slug":"cardinals-running-back-conner-sustains-campaign-ending-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cardinals-running-back-conner-sustains-campaign-ending-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals\u2019 running back Conner sustains campaign-ending injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Cardinals RB James Conner sustained a campaign-ending right ankle problem during yesterday\u2019s defeat against the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n<p>James was carted off the pitch after a 1-yard run at the beginning of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter of the 49ers\u2019 16-15 win. The problem is considered \u201csevere,\u201d and he will need a procedure.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, the Cardinals&#8217; manager, Jonathan Gannon, shared that he didn\u2019t know how bad the injury to his running back was, as nothing had been confirmed yet.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona will have only a few days to prepare for its next match vs. the Seahawks at home on TNF.<\/p>\n<p>QB Kyler Murray didn\u2019t hide his emotions while the medical staff checked the running back on the field. \u201cIt\u2019s very bad what happened to him,\u201d shared the quarterback of the Cardinals. \u201cJames is not just my teammate, I feel him like a brother. To witness him getting injured like this, you never want to experience that. I know that things like this happen in the NFL, but it\u2019s still very bad. Everything that he did to prepare for the season and to end it like this for him. Without a doubt, it\u2019s tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WAY too many injuries today&#8230;Cardinals RB James Conner is being carted off the field after being tackled very awkwardly. <\/p>\n<p>The broadcast did not show the replay&#8211; very telling of the severity of the injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qpi26CUrrX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Qpi26CUrrX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arye Pulli (@AryePulliNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AryePulliNFL\/status\/1969885615119380680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Cardinals RB James Conner sustained a campaign-ending right ankle problem during yesterday\u2019s defeat against the San Francisco 49ers. James was carted off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495594,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17485,19700],"news_category":[16703,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[19031,19701],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"James suffered a season-ending problem vs. San Francisco.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495595,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495593\/revisions\/495595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495593"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495593"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}