James Conner won’t play once more this season, in response to an ESPN report, after sustaining a severe ankle harm within the Arizona Cardinals’ 16-15 defeat to the San Francisco 49ers yesterday.
The 30-year-old working again went down after a one-yard run early within the third quarter with the severity of the harm swiftly obvious with gamers from each groups taking a knee in solidarity with the Cardinals captain earlier than he was carted off the sector.
In response to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Conner has been dominated out for the season and his proper ankle would require surgical procedure.
He means all the pieces – Murray hails stricken Conner
“It’s unlucky,” stated Arizona quarterback Kyler Murray. “Simply not solely is he my teammate, I really feel like that’s a brother of mine. Simply to see him go down like that, you by no means need to see that. I perceive it’s a part of the sport, however it’s not preferrred. All of the work that he places in and simply who he’s as an individual, you don’t need to see him get damage like that. Yeah, it’s robust.
“He’s all the pieces, means all the pieces.”
Trey Benson is now anticipated to step as much as develop into the workforce’s first-choice working again, not that he was displaying any indicators of pleasure after the sport.
“It’s one in every of my finest buddies on the workforce,” Benson stated of Conner. “He was like an enormous brother to me – my mentor. He taught me a variety of stuff right here, so it was robust [to watch].”
Conner, who was coming off back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons, is underneath contract with Arizona till 2026.