The Philadelphia Eagles will place second-round rookie defensive again Cooper DeJean on the energetic/non-football damage checklist (NFI) previous to the workforce’s first coaching camp observe this Wednesday, July 24, based on a report from ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
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[DeJean] will likely be sidelined sidelined three weeks with a hamstring damage suffered when he was caught in an ungainly place throughout offseason coaching, per league supply. It’s unrelated to any prior damage. The Eagles are assured in a fast restoration and that he’ll contribute as anticipated this season.
That’s some unlucky and sudden dangerous information on the eve of camp.
DeJean being out for 3 weeks actually isn’t very best; he’s on monitor to overlook about 11 practices and a minimum of one preseason recreation. His absence actually gained’t assist his case in relation to, say, probably incomes the beginning nickel cornerback job.
That being mentioned, it could possibly be lots worse. As soon as healed, DeJean has sufficient time to make sufficient of a optimistic impression to make his case for taking part in time. He might very effectively be a defensive position participant this season.
For these questioning, the energetic/NFI checklist works similar to the energetic/PUP checklist that Sydney Brown is reportedly going to be positioned on previous to Wednesday’s first observe. And so DeJean will nonetheless rely in the direction of the Eagles’ 90-player roster restrict. Ought to his restoration linger into the common season, the Eagles have the choice to place him on reserve/NFI to protect a roster spot whereas he misses the primary 4 video games of the season (a minimum of). Nevertheless it sounds just like the damage isn’t fairly that severe.
