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Eagles left tackle Jordan Mailata injured his hamstring in the fourth quarter on Sunday against the Browns and will miss some time.
Mailata was seen after the game using crutches and with a sleeve on his left leg. Mailata is expected to miss multiple games.
“It looks like Jordan’s going to be out a couple weeks,” head coach Nick Sirianni said on Monday. “We’ll see exactly how long it’s going to be. I don’t have that information yet exactly, all that. But Jordan is busting his butt to try to make a play and unfortunately that happened.”
While Sirianni said “a couple of weeks,” that might not literally mean two. But the fact that Sirianni was even willing to talk any type of timeline — something he normally avoids — is notable. The good news is that it certainly doesn’t appear to be a season-ender for Mailata. As for Darius Slay (knee) and Dallas Goedert (hamstring), Sirianni didn’t have any updates.
The Eagles play the Giants and Bengals on the road the next two weeks and it seems very likely they’ll be without Mailata for those games and perhaps more.
So what are the Eagles’ options?
“Everything is on the table,” Sirianni said. “We’ve got some good ability to do different things because of the roster that Howie (Roseman) and his staff have built and the flexibility Coach (Jeff) Stoutland coaches the guys up with to be able to be multiple at different positions. Flexibility is there. We’re early on in the process and we’ll figure that out as the week goes.”
Really, the Eagles have two top options for how to replace Mailata and the route they choose might be determined by how long they expect him to be out.
Here are the those options:
1. Play Fred Johnson at left tackle
This is pretty straightforward. Johnson is the Eagles’ backup swing tackle and he came in the game on Sunday to play the final 13 snaps in the…
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Publish date : 2024-10-14 21:02:48
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