Avoiding the injury imp: Five most irreplaceable Cardinals

The Cardinals’ training staff has had a busy past few days. On Friday, there was the first injury scare of the season when LB Deone Bucannon’s knee banged into new WR Brice Butler’s helmet during red zone drills. Fortunately, it seems like the Cardinals dodged a bullet—Bucannon will be okay.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like we’ll be so lucky with starting C A.Q. Shipley, who went down on Saturday at the Red and White practice with a left leg injury and was carted off the field. We’ll be hoping for good news on the ironman offensive lineman (he’s played in every game the past two seasons), but the initial reports didn’t sound good.

Of course, training camp injuries are a part of life for…