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Rookie DL Darius Robinson to return to practice this week

The Cardinals will open Darius Robinson’s practice window this week, opening the door for his NFL debut.

The Arizona Cardinals could have had rookie defensive lineman Darius Robinson return to practice last week, having spent the first four weeks of the season on injured reserve.

He did not have his 21-day practice window opened but that will happen this week, head coach Jonathan Gannon told reporters Monday.

Robinson suffered a calf injury before the season in practice. It was not as serious as it could have been.

He was placed on injured reserve before the season but designated as a player to return. Once his practice window is opened, which will happen Wednesday, he must be activated and occupy a spot on the active roster within 21 days.

Gannon, when asked about what he needs to see from Robinson before he is activated, wasn’t too specific. “Just him move around and play football,” he said.

We will see by the end of the week if the plan is for him to play in Week against the Green Bay Packers.

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Which Cardinals rookie is being designated to return from IR?

The Cardinals have three rookies on injured reserve who are eligible to have their practice window opened. Only one is returning this week.

The Arizona Cardinals have three players — all rookies — eligible to return from injured reserve this week. Only one is returning to practice and it isn’t the one fans are hoping to see.

Head coach Jonathan Gannon told reporters before Wednesday’s practice that rookie tackle Christian Jones is having his practice window opened, opening the door to his being reinstated to the active roster. He was placed on injured reserve before the season and designated to return with a leg injury  he suffered in the preseason finale.

It will allow him to practice and gives him 21 days to be placed on the active roster.

The Cardinals currently have no backup tackles on the active roster behind starters Paris Johnson and Kelvin Beachum.

First-round pick Darius Robinson, the Cardinals’ second first-round pick this year, is the player most are waiting for. He suffered a calf injury in practice and could potentially return to practice. That won’t happen today. All Gannon would say is that Robinson is “doing a good job.”

Also not designated to return to practice was cornerback Elijah Jones, who suffered a heel injury.

We will see whether the Cardinals see Jones as ready to be active on game days to be the backup swing tackle, or whether they will elevate Charlie Heck again from the practice squad.

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Cardinals rookie DL Darius Robinson begins season on injured reserve

Robinson will miss at least four games after being designated to return under a new NFL rule.

The debut for Arizona Cardinals rookie defensive lineman Darius Robinson will have to wait at least until Week 5. Robinson begins the season on injured reserve following a calf injury he suffered in practice last week.

The Cardinals announced he was placed on injured reserve on Tuesday with the roster moves they made to get the roster down to 53 players.

He is also designated to return from IR.

Had this been any prior year, landing on IR before spending a day on the 53-man roster meant a player’s season was over. His season would be over.

However, owners approved a change to allow teams to use up to two of their eight designations to bring players back from injured reserve, NFI or the practice squad injured reserve on players placed on IR with final cuts. They can bypass having to be on the active roster for a day.

The Cardinals used both possible designations on Robinson and rookie offensive lineman Christian Jones. They have six designations remaining for the 2024 season.

Robinson, the 27th overall pick in the 2024 draft, cannot practice until at least Week 5.

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Cardinals’ first-round pick likely to miss opener vs. Bills

#Cardinals’ first-round pick likely to miss opener vs. #Bills:

The Buffalo Bills will likely not have to face one of the newest members of the Arizona Cardinals when the two teams faceoff in their 2024 NFL regular season opener.

Defensive lineman Darius Robinson was the Cards’ second of two first-round selections at the 2024 NFL draft. The first was wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. at No. 4 overall. The other was the defensive lineman at the 27th slot.

According to NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport Robinson is set to miss multiple weeks due to a calf injury. With NFL teams slated to cut their team rosters by Tuesday afternoon, we could see a definitive answer by then.

If Robinson is placed on injured reserve before then, he must miss at least the first four games of the season and cannot practice until Week 5.

Per our friends at Cards Wire, Robinson was having a positive first summer in the NFL with a “great camp and preseason.”

Instead, he will likely miss his professional debut which, at one point, was going to be at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park where the Cardinals will travel to in Week 1.

Bills Wire will provide further updates when information is made available.

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Cardinals rookie DL Darius Robinson could start season on IR

Robinson suffered a calf strain that is considered to be a multi-week injury.

The Arizona Cardinals are looking at missing rookie defensive lineman Darius Robinson for multiple weeks. According to NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport, imaging for the calf injury he suffered in practice on Thursday revealed it is a multi-week injury and he is a candidate to begin the season on injured reserve. It is a calf strain.

The regular-season opener is two weeks away. If he starts the season on injured reserve, he must miss at least the first four games of the season and cannot practice until Week 5.

The Cardinals must trim their rosters to 53 players by Tuesday afternoon. They can place him on injured reserve before final cuts and he can still be eligible to be designated to return after four weeks. It is a new rule this year that a team can use up to two of its designations from IR on players who were placed on the reserve before being on the 53-man roster. Previously, they must be on the active roster for at least a day or IR meant being out for the season.

Robinson, the 27th pick in the draft this year, had a great camp and preseason. He was expected to be in the defensive rotation.

We will see how many weeks the Cardinals anticipate him being out. If they feel he can come back before Week 5, then they will probably carry him on the active roster.

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Cardinals rookie DL Darius Robinson dealing with calf injury

Robinson is looking at potential missed time but it isn’t bad news.

The Arizona Cardinals might have dodged a bullet with an injury to one of their top draft picks. Defensive lineman Darius Robinson, who was scheduled to have imaging done for an injury he suffered on Thursday, could miss time, according to Mike Jurecki.

Head coach Jonathan Gannon told reporters Friday that Robinson injured his calf but was waiting for results of the severity.

Upon news of an injury, many were worried about the potential of a serious injury, especially since second-year linebacker BJ Ojulari was lost for the season with a torn ACL.

With a little more than two weeks before the season opener on September 8, it does give Robinson time to recover, minimizing the amount of time he might miss.

If he were to be placed on injured reserve, he would have to miss at least the first four games of the season. The Cardinals expected results of the imaging later on Friday.

Robinson was selected 27th overall in the first round of the 2024 draft and is expected to be a key rotational player on the defensive line and perhaps some off the edge.

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Potential injury concern for Cardinals rookie DL Darius Robinson 2 weeks before season’s start

Robinson will have imaging done Friday for an injury suffered on Thursday.

Arizona Cardinals rookie defensive lineman Darius Robinson, one of their two first-round draft picks this year, will have imaging done on Friday for an injury he suffered on Thursday, league sources revealed to Cards Wire’s Howard Balzer.

Robinson is expected to be a key part of the defensive line rotation this season for the Cardinals and, according to head coach Jonathan Gannon, has a chance to be a starter.

Robinson was on the field participating during the open parts of practice on Wednesday and Thursday.

With a role secured for his rookie season, he likely would not have played in the Cardinals’ preseason finale on Sunday against the Denver Broncos. He did not play in the Cardinals’ preseason game against the Indianapolis Colts last weekend.

Fans will cross their fingers for an injury that is not serious. The Cardinals already lost second-year outside linebacker BJ Ojulari for the season to a torn ACL.

Head coach Jonathan Gannon will address the media Friday morning about 9 a.m. before the team’s final practice of the week. He probably won’t have any details then, so we probably won’t know for a couple of days whether the injury is minor or more.

The Cardinals will open the season in 17 days, on September 8 on the road against the Buffalo Bills.

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Rookies DL Darius Robinson ‘1000%’ could be a starter as a rookie for Cardinals

There are is more than one way for Robinson to be a starter as a rookie.

Defensive lineman Darius Robinson is the lesser known first-round pick of the Arizona Cardinals. Selected late in the round after the Cardinals selected receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. fourth overall, he doesn’t have the expectations heaped upon him that Harrison does.

Harrison is expected to start, be a 1,000-yard receiver as a rookie and perhaps compete for NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Robinson enters a defensive line room where starting might be hard. The Cardinals signed veterans Justin Jones and Bilal Nichols in the offseason and nose tackle Roy Lopez seems to have secured a spot in the starting lineup in that role.

But Robinson is doing well. In the Cardinals’ preseason opener against the New Orleans Saints, Robinson had a “couple of violent run clips there,” said head coach Jonathan Gannon.

There are things he needs to clean up, Gannon noted, but added, “he’s tough to block if he does the right things.”

But he is doing well enough that a starting role is not only not out of the question, he “1000%” has a chance to start.

However, it is important to remember that “starting” doesn’t necessarily mean much. Remember how linebacker Isaiah Simmons “started” the first four games of his NFL career in 2020 but played a total of 44 snaps over those four games?

Starting doesn’t matter if it is only good for show.

What matters is whether or not he has a key part of the rotation.

What might be the easiest way for him to be a “starter?”

Because he is able to play on the defensive interior and on the edge, and because the Cardinals have a bit of an uncertain void about a starting job at outside linebacker with BJ Ojulari’s season-ending injury, it would be easy to have him “start” on the edge opposite Zaven Collins with Jones, Nichols and Lopez starting on the interior.

With Ojulari’s injury, Robinson will certainly be asked to play the edge in some packages.

It is his “physical skillset, the size, the length and then the juice that he has” that allows him the positional versatility.

It doesn’t really matter if he is on the field for the first snap of the game, which technically makes him a starter.

Though with that comment by Gannon, keep an eye out on the possibility of Robinson being in the starting lineup but still having a complementary role.

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2024 Cardinals roster preview: DL Darius Robinson

We will preview every player on the Cardinals’ roster heading into training camp. This is about defensive lineman Darius Robinson.

The Arizona Cardinals will open training camp July 23 and begin the process of preparing for the regular season, forming the roster and determining starting jobs and roles on the team.

Leading up to the start of camp, we will take a look at every player on the offseason roster, their background, their contract, their play in 2023, questions they face and their roster outlook.

Next up is defensive lineman Darius Robinson.

Background

Robinson played basketball at Canton Preparatory High School in Canton, Mich., until transferring to Canton High School to play football in his junior season. He played five seasons at Missouri and was an inside lineman until becoming an edge rusher in 2023. In his career, Robinson played 49 games with 36 coming in the last three seasons. He totaled 120 tackles (72 solo) with 21.5 for loss, 13.0 sacks, and one pass defensed, forced fumble and fumble recovery. He was selected by the Cardinals with the 27th overall pick in the first round of the 2024 draft.

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Contract details for DL Darius Robinson; Cardinals’ top picks guaranteed nearly $50M

The Cardinals have signed both first-round draft picks and have committed over $49 million in guaranteed money to them.

With the signing of defensive lineman Darius Robinson this past week, only a few days after wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. also signed, the Arizona Cardinals guaranteed $49.244 million over four years to their two first-round picks along with a combined total of $29.454 million in signing bonuses.

The breakdown on Robinson’s $13,869,328 contract includes a signing bonus of $6,906,784 and base salaries of $795,000 this year; $1,425,424 in 2025; $2,055,848 in 2026 and $2,686,272 in 2027.

His salary-cap charges are $2,521,696 this year; $3,152,120 in 2025; $3,782,544 in 2026 and $4,412,968 in 2027. Robinson’s cap figure ranks 21st on the Cardinals according to overthecap.com, while Harrison is ninth at $6.432 million.

The Cardinals have signed 11 of their 12 draft choices with only third-round running back Trey Benson unsigned.

With the NFL offseason programs coming to a close during the second week of June, 206 of the 257 draft picks (80.2 percent) have signed.

Eight teams have signed all of their picks: Baltimore, Carolina, Houston, Las Vegas, L.A. Rams, New Orleans, N.Y. Giants and Seattle.

Of the 51 unsigned choices, 16 are with the Bills (nine) and Dolphins (seven). Buffalo has signed only its seventh-round pick while Miami hasn’t signed anyone yet.

In addition, 34 of the unsigned selections are in the first and second round with 17 each. After that, it’s four each in the third through sixth rounds and one in the seventh.

Along with the Cardinals, there are 11 teams with one pick to sign and with five of those, it’s the No. 1 pick: Atlanta, Detroit, Kansas City, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The other six are Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, N.Y. Jets and Tennessee.

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