Washington has not played yet this season after suffering a chest injury in the preseason.
Arizona Cardinals safety Charles Washington has yet to play in a game this season, having missed the first nine games of the season on injured reserve. He is nearing a return, and it is the perfect time to happen.
The Cardinals designated him to return from injured reserve, allowing him to begin to practice with the team. The team has 21 days to reinstate him to the active roster or he reverts to IR for the rest of the season.
Washington suffered a chest injury in the preseason.
With fellow safety Budda Baker expected to be sidelined for the next few games with a high ankle sprain, Washington’s return would be timely.
Wesley has a groin/hip injury and Washington has a chest injury. The earliest they can return is in Week 5.
The Arizona Cardinals announced a few roster moves Thursday. Two were moving players from the active roster to injured reserve.
They placed receiver Antoine Wesley and safety Charles Washington on injured reserve, meaning they will be out at least the first four games of the season.
Wesley suffered a groin/hip injury early in training camp and made progress but still needs time to recover. There was a possibility he would need surgery.
Washington injured his chest in the team’s preseason game against the Baltimore Ravens.
The earliest they can return is is Week 5, when the Cardinals host the Philadephia Eagles.
They had to make the active roster initially to be eligible to return at all this season. Players placed on IR before final rosters are set are done for the season. By waiting until after active rosters were set, both could be eligible to return. Teams are able to designate up to eight players from IR/NFI this year.
Washington will make the league minimum but his contract qualifies for a salary cap reduction.
One of the moves the Arizona Cardinals made recently was to re-sign safety Charles Washington, one of their core special teams players. He re-signed on a one-year to play a fourth season for the team.
Washington returns to the Cardinals for a fourth season, inking a one-year deal.
The Arizona Cardinals have brought back another player from last season. The team announced that safety and special teamer Charles Washington signed a one-year deal to return to the team.
Washington has been with the team since 2019.
He was claimed off waivers before the 2019 season after he was cut by the Detroit Lions.
He has been a core special teamer since then and has been the Cardinals’ top punt gunner.
He had four special teams tackles last season in seven games. He spent most of the season on injured reserve.
In 2020, he had a career-high 13 special teams tackles to go along with a forced fumble and three tackles on defense.
Washington has played five seasons in the NFL, three with the Cardinals and two with the Lions.
Chase Edmonds, Charles Washington and Aaron Brewer all return to practice and Jonathan Ward was activated off the COVIS list.
The Arizona Cardinals opened the week hoping they could get some injured starters back this week for their huge Week 14 matchup on Monday night against the Los Angeles Rams.
They announced moves that make that possibility closer to a reality.
The Cardinals designated running back Chase Edmonds, long snapper Aaron Brewer and safety Charles Washington for return from injured reserve.
This allows them to return to practice and opens a 21-day window in which they must be activated or they will revert to IR for the remainder of the season.
Edmonds missed the last three games with an ankle injury. Brewer injured his arm and has missed three games. Washington hurt his hamstring in Week 3 against the Jacksonville Jaguars and has been on injured reserve since then.
Defensive tackle Rashard Lawrence was designated to return last week.
The Cardinals also activated running back Jonathan Ward from the COVID list. He missed three games with a concussion and a fourth after testing positive for the virus.
If Edmonds can return for the game this week, he will bolster both the running game and the passing game. Lawrence would improve the run defense. Brewer would settle the kicking game. Over the last two games, the Cardinals have missed three kicks and had to abort another on a bad snap.
Ward and Washington coming back will bolster special teams.
Based on reports from those in attendance for the open part of Thursday’s practice, left guard Justin Pugh, who has missed the last three games with a calf injury, was on the field for practice, suggesting he could possibly return this week as well, which is good, as he often must block the Rams’ Aaron Donald.
In a smaller move, the Cardinals re-signed running back Tavien Feaster to the practice squad.
The Cardinals make a few moves affecting the 53-man roster, placing Charles Washington on IR, signing Antonio Hamilton and designating Dennis Gardeck to return from IR.
The Arizona Cardinals made some roster moves Wednesday affecting the 53-man roster. Safety and special teams ace Charles Washington, who suffered a hamstring injury in the Cardinals’ 31-19 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars, was placed on injured reserve. He will miss a minimum of three games. Head coach Kliff Kingsbury indicated Monday when he spoke to the media that Washington would be unable to play this week against the Los Angeles Rams.
To replace him on the roster, they signed cornerback Antonio Hamilton from the practice squad to the 53-man roster, a move that was reported Tuesday.
Both Hamilton and Washington have been the team’s gunners on the punt team. Hamilton had been elevated from the practice squad to the active roster each of the first three weeks of the season, once as a COVID replacement and twice as a standard elevation.
Hamilton will obviously continue to be a gunner on punts, but it is uncertain who will replace Washington. Receiver Antoine Wesley handled those duties after Washington got hurt in the game on Sunday.
The Cardinals also designated linebacker Dennis Gardeck for return. He is on injured reserve and missed the first three games of the season. He now can return to practice and the team has 21 days to activate him and have him take a place on the active roster.
He has not guaranteed salary and will get $68,750 in a roster bonus if he makes the Week 1 roster.
One of the many players the Arizona Cardinals have re-signed is safety and special teamer Charles Washington. A fixture on the roster for the last two seasons, Washington is on a one-year deal for the second season in a row.
For the second year in a row, the Cardinals will pay him the league minimum. However, unlike last year’s contract, he gets a signing bonus and can earn another bonus for making the team.
The Houston Chronicle’s Aaron Wilson shared the details of the contract on Twitter.
Charles Washington (Cardinals) one year, $1.127M, $68,750 signing bonus, salary $990K, $68,750 first-game active-inactive roster bonus
He will make $990,000 in salary in 2021, which is the minimum for someone with between 4-6 credited seasons. He receives a signing bonus of $68,750 and also will get a bonus of the same amount if he is on the Week 1 roster — a total of $137,000.
None of his salary is guaranteed.
Because of how the contract is structured, according to Spotrac, his contract gets a veteran exemption against the salary cap. While he will get more than $1.12 million in cash if he makes the team, his cap hit is only $987,500, a savings of nearly $140,000 in cap space for the contract.
If he doesn’t make the team, his deal will only have $68,750 in dead money against the cap.
This will be his third season with the Cardinals after finishing with 13 special teams tackles in 2020.
The Arizona Cardinals entered the offseason with most of their core special teams players hitting free agency. They continue to bring back many of them. The latest is safety Charles Washington.
The team announced Thursday he agreed to a one-year deal to return to the team. It will be his third season with the Cardinals.
The 5-foot-10, 192-pound safety was acquired before the 2019 season on a waive claim after he was released by the Detroit Lions. He has played over 200 special teams snaps every one of his four seasons in the league. Last year, he also played 40 snaps on defense, his first playing time on defense since his rookie season in 2017.
Washington was second on the team with 13 special teams tackles and also forced a fumble. He was tied for second on the team in 2019 with seven special teams tackles.
Their kickers, punter and seven of their top special teams players are all scheduled to be free agents this offseason.
The Arizona Cardinals have had stability in their special teams unit over the last couple of seasons. That could change this offseason.
Almost all their top special teams players are free agents.
Kicker Zane Gonzalez and punter Andy Lee are scheduled to be free agents. There is question as to whether the Cardinals want Gonzalez back, but his late-season replacement, Mike Nugent, is also a free agent.
Trent Sherfield, Dennis Gardeck, Ezekiel Turner, Chris Banjo, D.J. Foster and Charles Washington, all of whom have been core special teams in almost all their special teams units, are all scheduled to hit free agency.
Sherfield, Gardeck and Turner are restricted free agents. Gardeck is also recovering from a torn ACL.
If you also add Tanner Vallejo, who also will be a free agent, all their field goals, punts and 67 of their special teams tackles this season are all going to be free agents.
Aside from Gonzalez’ struggles last year in the kicking game, special teams has been pretty strong. That might change if they lose too many of these key contributors this offseason.
