{"id":645472,"date":"2026-01-01T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/645472\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:56:41","slug":"cardinals-rule-harrison-out-nolen-and-williams-get-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/645472\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals rule Harrison out; Nolen and Williams get surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Cardinals ruled wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. out for their season finale on Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams, head coach Jonathan Gannon told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gannon also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Tdrake4sports\/status\/2006407059789480286?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> defensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/walter-nolen-3\/3606390\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Walter Nolen III<\/a> (knee) and cornerback Garrett Williams (Achilles) underwent surgery and are on the road to recovery. Gannon did not confirm whether Nolen tore his ACL \u201cout of respect for the player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both defenders went down in Week 16 against the Atlanta Falcons and were placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Gannon also announced that safety <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/kitan-crawford-inj\/3606817\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kitan Crawford<\/a> (ankle) will not play on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Marvin Harrison Jr. done for 2025 season<\/p>\n<p>Harrison only played 19 snaps in last Sunday\u2019s game at the Cincinnati Bengals due to a heel injury, as the second half of his season has been marred by appendicitis and the foot ailment.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison ended his second NFL season with only 12 games played.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 No. 4 overall pick produced 41 catches on 73 targets, 608 receiving yards and four touchdown grabs. Harrison improved his catch percentage from 53.4% last year to 56.2% this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he did some good things,\u201d Gannon said. \u201cWe moved him around the formation, he scored points for us, got open, caught it. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s hit his ceiling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He played all 17 games as a rookie in 2024, when he gained 885 yards with eight touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals visit the Rams at SoFi Stadium Sunday with kickoff scheduled for 2:25 p.m. MST.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexjweiner\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @alexjweiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals ruled wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. out for their season finale on Sunday against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,1632,2604,1327,7,1631,6,1630],"class_list":{"0":"post-645472","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-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-home","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115819720996878831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645472","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=645472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}