Hernandez, who was the Cardinals’ starting right guard 2022-2024, visited the team Monday.<\/p>\n
The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> had free agent offensive lineman Will Hernandez in for a visit this week. They are expected to reach a deal for him to return to the team.<\/p>\n According to Arizona Sports 98.7 FM’s John Gambadoro<\/a>, both sides would like to get a deal done, and he expects a contract to be agreed upon soon.<\/p>\n Hernandez spent the last three seasons as the Cardinals’ starting right guard. He tore his ACL in Week 5 last season and only recently was medically cleared for football.<\/p>\n Since then, 2024 third-round pick Isaiah Adams has been moved into Hernandez’ old starting job. If Hernandez is re-signed, it does not mean that Adams will move to the bench.<\/p>\n In fact, since Hernandez has not participated in any training camp, Cards Wire’s Howard Balzer believes<\/a> the Cardinals would start Hernandez on PUP, potentially having him start the season there, where he would have to miss the first four games, at least.<\/p>\n Hernandez would give the Cardinals proven starter-quality depth behind Adams and the Cardinals wouldn’t miss a beat should someone get hurt.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hernandez, who was the Cardinals’ starting right guard 2022-2024, visited the team Monday. The Arizona Cardinals had free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[3979,247,265,375,390,2604,1327,7,8762,20842,2725,10932,248,267,246,88,6,35196,245,264,1602,1982,9,266,1980,1124,8763],"class_list":{"0":"post-268347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-adams","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-arizona","12":"tag-arizona-cardinals","13":"tag-arizonacardinals","14":"tag-cardinals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-hernandez","17":"tag-hub","18":"tag-isaiah","19":"tag-isaiah-adams","20":"tag-national","21":"tag-national-sports","22":"tag-neutral","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-nfl-hub","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-neutral","28":"tag-smg","29":"tag-smg-timely","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-news","32":"tag-timely","33":"tag-will","34":"tag-will-hernandez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114986118350478664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}