Arizona Cardinals LB Cody Simons has something to prove in 2026
Cody Simon, a linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals, is entering the 2026 season with something to prove. After a challenging 2025 season where the team struggled defensively, Simon's role is now uncertain with the return of Mack Wilson and the signing of Jack Gibbens. He must demonstrate his ability to secure a starting position rather than being relegated to a special teams role.
- ▪Cody Simon was drafted in the fifth round in 2025 and started the last nine games of the season.
- ▪He recorded 76 total tackles, but the Cardinals lost every game he started, highlighting defensive struggles.
- ▪With Wilson's return and Gibbens' signing, Simon faces competition for a starting role in 2026.
Yahoo Sports files mainly under sports. We currently carry 16,505 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Yahoo Sports |
| Canonical URL | https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/arizona-cardinals-lb-cody-simons-033612150.html |
| Publication time | Sun, 24 May 2026 03:36:12 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-24T04:07:30.828Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-24T04:07:30.828Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | kZEKJEUt4vIL · 4 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","mainEntityOfPage":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/arizona-cardinals-lb-cody-simons-033612150.html","headline":"Arizona Cardinals LB Cody Simons has something to prove in 2026","datePublished":"2026-05-24T03:36:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-24T03:36:12.000Z","keywords":["Arizona Cardinals","Cody Simon","Mack Wilson","Jack Gibbens"],"description":"This 2025 fifth-round pick has something to prove in 2026 with the Arizona Cardinals.","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Yahoo Sports","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://s.yimg.com/cv/apiv2/default/icons/favicon_y112_112.png","width":112,"height":112},"url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/"},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jess Root, Cardinals…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Yahoo Sports.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Yahoo Sports
