Cardinals Receiver Michael Wilson Out for Season With Neck Fracture

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Michael Wilson will miss the rest of the 2026 season with a fracture in his neck, head coach Mike LaFleur announced on Monday, November 9.

Wilson was hurt on the fourth play of Sunday's 17-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. He stayed in the game and finished with a game-high 60 receiving yards on six catches, and the fracture was found only when he was tested on Monday. LaFleur said Wilson will be placed on injured reserve.

Hurt on the fourth play, finished the game

LaFleur told reporters Wilson felt only a minor problem during the game. "He's got a fracture in his neck area," LaFleur said. "He said he had a kink in his neck, but he's such a warrior; he didn't think much of that. When the adrenaline wore down, got his tests today. That's when we knew."

The sequence explains why the injury was not spotted on Sunday. Wilson played the full game against Seattle, led all receivers in the game with his 60 yards, and reported for tests on Monday, when the fracture was confirmed and the season-ending decision followed.

A career year cut short

Wilson, 26, had 51 catches for 546 receiving yards and two touchdowns in 2026. The Cardinals drafted him with the No. 94 overall pick in the third round of the 2023 NFL Draft, and he agreed to a three-year, $75 million extension before the start of the 2026 season.

His loss lands on a receiving group that is already thin. Arizona traded Marvin Harrison Jr. to the Houston Texans in October. The receivers left on the active roster are Simi Fehoko, Reggie Virgil, Devin Duvernay and Harrison Wallace III, while Kendrick Bourne and Jalen Brooks are on injured reserve.

What Arizona does next

Wilson joins Bourne and Brooks on injured reserve, so Arizona must cover his snaps from a short list. Fehoko, Virgil, Duvernay and Wallace are the available options named in the reporting, and the club gave no timetable beyond the season-ending move to injured reserve. The announcement closed Wilson's 2026 season with the Seahawks game as his final appearance of the year.

The numbers behind the loss

The Seahawks game summed up Wilson's role. His six catches and 60 yards led the game even though the injury came on the fourth play, and his season totals of 51 catches, 546 yards and two touchdowns came with the extension he had signed months earlier still in its first season. Arizona now loses that production with no receiver on the active roster who was named in the reporting as his replacement, only the four healthy options listed above.