Calais Campbell Injury: Updates on Cardinals Star's Knee and Return

Updates from Sunday, Oct. 26

Mark Dalton of the Arizona Cardinals reported on Calais Campbell's status for Sunday's matchup vs. Philadelphia:

Updates from Friday, Oct. 24

Mike Jurecki of Fox Sports 910 passed along Calais Campbell's status for Sunday's game:

Updates from Thursday, Oct. 23

Darren Urban of of AZCardinals.com passed along what he was seeing from Calais Campbell during Thursday's practice:

Urban added:

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Defensive end Calais Campbell was back at practice Thursday for the first time since absorbing the chop block of Broncos tight end Julius Thomas. Campbell’s MCL suffered a slight tear, and Campbell — understandably — has been cautiously optimistic in his approach of playing against the Eagles Sunday after missing two games. He wants to play, of course. He also doesn’t want to go out unprepared. Campbell already knows the knee isn’t going to be right the rest of the season. He wants to make sure it’s right enough.

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Updates from Wednesday, Oct. 22

Zach Berman of the Philadelphia Inquirer passed along comments from Bruce Arians on Calais Campbell's status:

Mike Jurecki of Fox Sports 910 later passed along an update on Campbell from Wednesday's practice:

Updates from Sunday, Oct. 19 

The Arizona Cardinals provide an update on Calais Campbell's status:

Updates from Tuesday, Oct. 14

Alex Marvez of FOX Sports 1 has the latest on Campbell:

Updates from Monday, Oct. 13

ESPN's Josh Weinfuss provides a statement from Calais Campbell discussing his recovery and possibly practicing this week:

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I understand that it's a process and all depends on how my body feels. The process right now is just listening to my body and just to see how it progresses over the next few days.

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I guess the biggest thing is making sure the muscle or ligament reattaches and gets strong enough where it won't re-injure itself. That's the hardest part, so I won't re-injure myself. Once I get through that point, it's just tolerating pain and being able to play.

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It's frustrating because I felt like I was just getting into the groove. I felt explosive. I felt like I was getting to that mentality where I could dominate. Really felt in Denver, that second half I was going to dominate. 

Things happen and the beauty of it is whenever I do get back, it's still a lot of football left to be played. I can still do what I want to do and help the team win games.

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Updates from Monday, Oct. 13

ESPN's Josh Weinfuss has the latest on Campbell:

Updates from Monday, Oct. 6

Kent Somers of AZCentral.com passed along the diagnosis on Calais Campbell's injured knee:

Earlier, Darren Urban of AZCardinals.com provides a synopsis of Cardinals general manager Steve Keim discussing Campbell's injury during an appearance on the “Doug and Wolf” show:

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Defensive end Calais Campbell is getting an MRI this morning, but Keim said the belief is Campbell has a Grade 2 MCL sprain in his right knee. Keim said Campbell’s prognosis is tough to predict because it can range quite a bit. But it felt like a little optimism. Keim didn’t even close the door on Campbell playing against Washington Sunday (although that would be amazing) although multiple games sitting is definitely possible.

Also clear: Keim wasn’t happy about the Julius Thomas low block that hurt Campbell, saying he’s never seen a player go low on what was essentially going to be a chip block before Thomas ran a pass route. 'Hopefully, we’ll never see that again,' Keim said.

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Campbell himself later spoke about the injury on his Twitter account:

Original Text

The Arizona Cardinals defense has had no luck when it comes to injuries this season, and an injury to defensive end Calais Campbell in Week 5 against the Denver Broncos could very well test their depth further as the season moves along.   

According to the Cardinals' official Twitter account, Campbell left the game with a knee injury after getting on the wrong end of a chop block from the Broncos' pass protection:

Darren Urban of AZCardinals.com provided an update after the game: 

The veteran Campbell is one of the more consistent defensive linemen in the league. He's had no fewer than six sacks in a season since his sophomore year in the league.

The Cardinals lost defensive end Darnell Dockett for the season when he tore his ACL back in August.

The NFC West is arguably the toughest division in football and the Cardinals will be hoping Campbell will return from his injury sooner rather than later.