A.Q. Shipley hadn’t missed a practice “in my life” before the Cardinals begun organized team activities.
But once OTAs started the team’s starting center ended up on the sideline, needing to get core/hernia surgery on a problem he suffered in the team’s next-to-last game of the 2016 season in Seattle. Shipley played against the Rams with it and thought it would get better on its own. It did not.
“I was going to try and fight through it but it was one of those things where it was lingering and I didn’t want
to have it during the season,” Shipley said Thursday.