CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers placed backup running back Jonathon Brooks on injured reserve with a groin injury on Wednesday.
According to a person familiar with the situation, Brooks will have surgery Wednesday to repair a core muscle injury that will result in him missing at least six weeks. Brooks is expected to return this season, the person told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team has yet to provide any details on how long he will be out.
The Panthers signed safety Isaiah Simmons from the practice squad to take Brooks' spot on the 53-man roster.
Coach Dave Canales said Monday that Brooks had injured his groin late in Carolina’s 34-3 win over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. He said at the time the team was awaiting the results of an MRI.
Brooks has struggled with knee injuries in the past, limiting his playing time to only five of a potential 36 games since joining the league as a second round pick in 2024.
He tore his ACL during his final season at Texas and then again during his rookie season with the Panthers. The injury forced him to miss the remainder of the 2024 season and all of 2025.
Brooks was used sparingly in Carolina's first two games of the season.
Chuba Hubbard is Carolina's starting running back and A.J. Dillon is third on the depth chart.
Among the veteran free agents available to sign with Carolina at running back include Austin Ekeler, who last played with the Washington Commanders in 2025, and Kareem Hunt, who played for the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Panthers play at Cleveland on Sunday.
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Carolina Panthers tight end Darren Waller (88) celebrates with Carolina Panthers running back Jonathon Brooks (25) after he scores a touchdown against Atlanta Falcons cornerback C.J. Henderson (26) during an NFL football game in Atlanta, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.(AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Carolina Panthers running back Jonathon Brooks (25) rushes the ball during an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than a dozen words long used in Bermuda and across the Caribbean got an official nod on Wednesday from the Oxford English Dictionary.
First in line is “bimpert,” a Bermudian word of unknown origin that is used to describe a stupid or foolish person. People on the tiny island in the north Atlantic often use it in this traditional phrase: “A bimpert is justah wuffless bye,” which roughly translates to: an idiot is just a worthless boy.
Another colorful addition is “hornerman,” a word used in the eastern Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago since 1975 to describe an unfaithful man or a man having a relationship with someone else's woman.
If someone in the Caribbean were to find out about such infidelities, they might be known “to get on,” which means to have an emotional outburst or make a scene, or “to cut someone’s tail,” meaning to beat someone.
Depending on the fallout from such infidelities, a woman might need “vex money,” which refers to “money carried or kept in a safe place by a woman, for use in an emergency or in any unexpected eventuality.”
Among other dark words that made the list is “jablesse,” defined as "a malevolent shape-shifting female spirit with one cloven hoof, which at night is said to assume the form of a beautiful woman to lure men to their deaths.” It is derived from “diablesse,” the French word for female demon.
Another supernatural entry is “douen." It is “typically depicted as short in stature, with backward-pointing feet, and wearing a large hat, said to be the spirit of a child who died before it could be baptized, and believed to lure children into the forest by calling their names,” according to the dictionary. It is a variation of the Spanish word “duende,” which means elf.
Several food-related words were included this year: “shadeesh,” the Bermudian word for chorizo; “sugar cake,” made of grated coconut boiled with sugar, water and spices; and “peanut punch,” a wildly popular rich and frothy beverage made with peanuts or peanut butter, milk, sugar and several spices.
In the Caribbean, one might sit down to have a peanut punch with one’s “nana” or “nani,” which are used to address one’s maternal grandparents. In Bermuda, one would sit down to partake with a “hamma,” or friend.
The final Caribbean English words added this year are “Trinbagonian,” which refers to people from both the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and “canboulay,” which refers to Carnival festivities in Trinidad in the 1800s that celebrated the emancipation of slaves. They stem from a 1700s harvest festival that the British tried to quash, leading to riots reenacted to this day to mark the start of Carnival. Canboulay is derived from “burning cane,” which the dictionary noted was associated with “acts of defiance and rebellion.”
There are some 500,000 words and phrases in the Oxford English Dictionary, which details the history of words, some of which go back to the 11th century.
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FILE - People with Trinidad and Tobago flag are seen during J'ouvert celebration, Sept. 4, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
