Walter Nolen injury: Arizona Cardinals DT should be ready for training camp
While the team has been silent about Walter Nolen's injury, his girlfriend revealed it was a torn meniscus.
The Arizona Cardinals have kept the knee injury that 2025 first-round pick Walter Nolen suffered shrouded in secrecy. Why? Who knows.
But there is good news. While many speculated that he suffered a torn ACL in December when he went down with a knee injury and had to be carted off the field, we know that it is something far less serious. He tore his meniscus, according to a video on TikTok that his girlfriend, Tyler Nelson, posted on Jan.
11. While she was telling her viewers about getting ready, she noted why there was a chair in the shower. It is because Nolen "tore his meniscus and had to get surgery and so now this is how he showers,” she said.
AZCentral. com's Theo Mackie noted that meniscus surgery can have a recover time of three to six months, and that is good news. It means that he could be fully cleared sometime before the end of the offseason program.