The Philadelphia Eagles formally introduced two roster strikes forward of their Week 12 highway recreation in opposition to the Los Angeles Rams. An summary:
WR Britain Covey was activated from injured reserve to the energetic roster. His harm standing was upgraded from questionable to no designation.
TE C.J. Uzomah was quickly elevated from the follow squad.
Be aware: groups can quickly promote follow squad gamers as much as 3 times every within the common season and an infinite variety of instances within the postseason.
Let’s type by way of this information on a player-by-player foundation.
BRITAIN COVEY
The Eagles opened Covey’s 21-day follow window to return from IR earlier this week. He was a full participant in three practices main up this week’s recreation earlier than being dominated questionable to play on the ultimate harm report. Covey is now returning to the sector for the primary time since struggling a shoulder harm in Week 3.
The extent of his position stays to be seen. One would determine he’ll take over at punt returner, permitting standout rookie nickel defender Cooper DeJean to solely concentrate on taking part in protection. Covey may additionally see snaps on offense, particularly with DeVonta Smith dominated out. The final time Covey performed a full recreation was in Week 2, when A.J. Brown wasn’t capable of play. Covey completed that matchup with six (!) targets … which resulted in six catches for simply 23 yards.
Covey is about to be one in all 5 vast receivers energetic on Sunday. The others: Brown, Jahan Dotson, Johnny Wilson, and Ainias Smith.
Nick Sirianni had reward for Covey on Friday.
SIRIANNI: […] Can’t stress sufficient how good of a teammate Britain Covey is. And guys like being round him, so it’s good having him again on the market within the combine and interacting along with his teammates on the follow subject.
Q. When he’s again, how do you make the choice about who the punt returner is? What components decide that?
SIRIANNI: Clearly, we’ll all the time do what we really feel is finest for our soccer staff. Coop has executed a really, excellent job returning the ball in Britain’s absence. Britain has executed a wonderful job, been among the best guys within the league returning the punts when he was the punt returner. Good drawback to have. We’ll consider all the pieces and make the choice that most closely fits our soccer staff.
C.J. UZOMAH
The Eagles beforehand elevated Uzomah to be their third tight finish behind Dallas Goedert and Grant Calcaterra in Week 11. Uzomah performed three offensive snaps and 0 particular groups snaps in that recreation. He’ll seemingly have a really restricted position once more this week, barring accidents to Goedert and/or Calcaterra.
Uzomah has one elevation remaining for the remainder of the common season.
