Mack Hollins Injury: Eagles wide receiver placed on injured reserve Here’s a bad surprise: the Philadelphia Eagles are placing second-year wide receiver Mack Hollins on injured reserve
Cheap Alshon Jeffery Jersey , according to an official announcement from the team.There was thought he might be able to return to the field this week — Hollins himself said he expected to play on Thursday night — but that hope quickly dissipated. On Tuesday, Doug Pederson said Hollins suffered a “minor setback” related to his groin injury and ruled him out of the Eagles’ Thursday night contest against the Atlanta Falcons.Hollins isn’t necessarily out for the season just because he’s been placed on the injured reserve list. He’s eligible to be activated after Week 8 since NFL teams are allowed to return two players from IR per season. There’s some buzz Hollins could be back later this year. Veteran tight end Richard Rodgers is another candidate for such designation. In the meantime, Hollins’ absence is another significant hit to Philadelphia’s wide receiver corps. With Hollins out and Alshon Jeffery possibly not back until Week 3, the Eagles are currently without two of their top receivers. This development means the Eagles only have five healthy wide receivers: Mike Wallace, Nelson Agholor, Shelton Gibson
Brandon Brooks Jersey , DeAndre Carter, and Markus Wheaton. Philadelphia also kept Rashard Davis and Greg Ward Jr. on the practice squad.Hollins’ absence opens a window of opportunity for Gibson, who looked much improved during the summer, to step up. Carter and Wheaton could also get some opportunities as well. Wheaton seems most like a direct replacement for Hollins’ role in the short-term. Placing Hollins on injured reserve frees up a roster spot. The Eagles will soon need to make some more changes to the roster when Nigel Bradham and Deiondre’ Hall are done serving their suspensions tomorrow and begin to count against the 53-man limit.
UPDATE: A small note about the practice squad. Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins flipped Saints coach Sean Payton the bird after getting beaten for a touchdown in last Sunday’s 48-7 loss to the Saints and said after the game that he was upset at himself for letting Alvin Kamara get past him.Jenkins was upset about other things that happened during the blowout loss as well and shared some of those feelings on Tuesday. Jenkins聽said that “the demeanor of the team really bothered” him during the loss and suggested some of his teammates weren’t as willing to push back at the Saints as he would’ve liked.“It was just embarrassing, quite frankly,” Jenkins said
Darren Sproles Jersey , via Dave Zangaro of NBC Sports Philadelphia. “It was one of those things that I didn’t feel like, as a team, we had a lot of fight. I’d rather just get thrown out of a game than lay die and take it. …聽I think when a team jumps on you like the Saints did and gets rolling, you find out a聽lot about yourself. You’re going to get blown out regardless. You’re either going to get blown out swinging or blown out laying down. And I think you had a little bit of both.”Hearing a player like Jenkins say these things after such a terrible performance isn’t out of the ordinary. The big question for the Eagles is whether they find that fight in response to hearing what Jenkins and other veteran leaders are saying or if the 4-6 start has already taken the wind out of too many sails.
