The Arizona Cardinals will be without one of the team’s highlights in the final stretch of the regular season.
Safety Budda Baker is out for the rest of the season after suffering a fractured shoulder in the team’s loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday Night Football.
Despite the injury, Baker stayed on the field and participated in every matchup, which ended with the Cardinals’ fifth consecutive loss of the season.
If the Cardinals have a disappointing campaign, with four wins and 11 losses in 2022, Baker was selected, once again, to the Pro Bowl. He is already five selections in his career and twice selected to the league’s All-Pro team.
The safety has never missed more than two games due to injury in a single season and has played in all of the Cardinals’ games thus far.
The shoulder injury is the safety’s second clinical problem this year. Earlier, the player had suffered a sprained ankle. The expectation was that the player would be out of combat for at least two weeks. However, Baker contradicted the predictions and played without major problems.
The performance of the Cardinals defender accredited him to the fourth consecutive selection for the Pro Bowl, accounting for two interceptions, seven passes defended, a forced fumble, 111 tackles, in addition to 15 pressures against opposing quarterbacks.
Despite the Cardinals already being eliminated from the postseason, Baker’s absence should be greatly missed.
Arizona faces the Atlanta Falcons, away from home, next Sunday, and closes the regular season against the San Francisco 49ers, on January 8.
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