Former Roanoke Rapids Yellow Jacket and Roanoke Rapids native Kareem Martin was injured Thursday night in the Arizona Cardinals pre-season game against Denver Broncos.

Darren Urban posted in the Arizona Cardinals website Blog: Special teams will be impacted with the short-term loss of linebacker Kareem Martin. Martin hurt his MCL and Arians said they are hoping he’s only out two or three weeks. You have to wonder, if fellow linebacker Tristan Okpalaugo hadn’t gotten hurt earlier (it was announced as a right knee; Arians said after it was a hamstring) and was still playing if Martin even would have been on the field. Bad luck all around