{"id":288097,"date":"2025-08-14T18:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/288097\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:39:11","slug":"walter-nolen-injury-update-jonathan-gannon-reports-arizona-cardinals-dl-progressing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/288097\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Nolen injury update: Jonathan Gannon reports Arizona Cardinals DL ‘progressing well’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arizona Cardinals first round pick and former Ole Miss defensive lineman Walter Nolen<\/a> suffered a calf injury earlier in fall camp<\/a>. Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon updated the status of Nolen on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Nolen\u2019s working to get back and he\u2019s missed a large portion of training camp. There\u2019s still the potential that he misses some regular season time.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s doing well, he\u2019s progressing right where he should be progressing,\u201d Gannon said<\/a>. \u201cHasn\u2019t had any, I don\u2019t want to say the word setbacks, but hasn\u2019t had any setbacks. He\u2019s progressing well.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Nolen, who was the 16th overall pick, he signed a lucrative rookie contract reportedly for four years and worth $19.3 million,\u00a0according to ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter.<\/a>\u00a0The deal also included a $10.7 million signing bonus.<\/p>\n

Nolen is coming off a season in which he logged career highs with 48 tackles, 14.0 tackles for a loss, 6.5 sacks, two fumble recoveries and three passes defended. He did that at Ole Miss, transferring to the Rebels after spending two seasons with the\u00a0Texas A&M Aggies<\/a>\u00a0out of high school.<\/p>\n

In his career, Nolen has totaled 114 tackles, 26.0 tackles for a loss, 11.5 sacks, three fumble recoveries, a forced fumble and four passes defended.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Cardinals are hopeful he can get the defensive line going out in the desert.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to have a more disruptive defensive unit. We think we\u2019ve added players that can help us do that,\u201d\u00a0Cardinals general manager Monti Ossenfort said in April<\/a>. \u201cAnd again, when we find players that can affect the middle of the pocket, it puts a lot of stress on the offense. And so Walter is another guy that we think can do that, can help us do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nolen was the second Ole Miss defensive lineman taken by the Cardinals in the last nine years. Robert Nkemdiche<\/a> was drafted by Arizona as the 29th overall pick of the 2016 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to learn their process. I still get to be a kid a little bit,\u201d\u00a0Nolen said of joining the Cardinals defensive lineman room<\/a>. \u201cJust get in there, learn their process, learn how they do things and just implement it into my process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals first round pick and former Ole Miss defensive lineman Walter Nolen suffered a calf injury earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,7,6,15385],"class_list":{"0":"post-288097","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-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-walter-nolen-22-powell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115028581809963046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288097","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=288097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}