{"id":269748,"date":"2025-08-07T19:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/269748\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:22:10","slug":"cardinals-bring-back-offensive-lineman-will-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/269748\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Bring Back Offensive Lineman Will Hernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cardinals are adding some mijo things to the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Former starting guard Will Hernandez, who had reached free agency after <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azcardinals.com\/news\/cardinals-lose-will-hernandez-to-knee-injury-2024-nick-bosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tearing his left ACL last season<\/a>, has returned to the Cardinals after signing a one-year deal on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on the roster, the team released cornerback Keni-H Lovely.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez, who turns 30 in September, had recently announced on social media <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/willhernandez76\/status\/1950182920263459108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">he had been \u201cofficially cleared\u201d<\/a> to play from his injury. He will, however, start his time with the Cardinals on the active Physically Unable To Perform list as he gets back to playing shape.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez hurt his knee in San Francisco Week 5 last season in a win over the 49ers. He has started all 35 of the games he played for the Cardinals the past three seasons at right guard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will plays hard,&#8221; offensive coordinator Drew Petzing said. &#8220;You see the physicality and the movement skills. We have a lot of familiarity with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how his arrival eventually impacts the roster. Second-year guard Isaiah Adams started the last five games at right guard last season and has held the first-string spot all offseason. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azcardinals.com\/news\/all-star-isaiah-adams-and-camp-practice-aftermath\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">He also earned praise<\/a> in training camp from coach Jonathan Gannon. Evan Brown returned this season as the starter at left guard.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, depth automatically gets better.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other options for guard on the roster: Royce Newman, Jake Curhan, Nick Leverett, and rookie Hayden Conner.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals closed out training camp at State Farm Stadium on Thursday. The team will open the preseason schedule on Saturday at home against the Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>More to come on azcardinals.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals are adding some mijo things to the roster. Former starting guard Will Hernandez, who had reached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,1051,7,1053,1052,88,6,35265,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-269748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-featured-articles","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-home-page-news-headlines","15":"tag-mega-feed","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-training-camp-2025","19":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269748","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=269748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}