{"id":246507,"date":"2025-07-29T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/246507\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T23:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:09:18","slug":"rams-vs-eagles-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/246507\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams vs. Eagles Injury Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday&#8217;s Injury Report<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the major injury to come out of Sunday&#8217;s Wild Card win over the Green Bay Packers was the loss of starting linebacker Nakobe Dean for the rest of the season due to a knee injury. On Tuesday, the Eagles <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philadelphiaeagles.com\/news\/eagles-place-nakobe-dean-on-injured-reserve-in-a-series-of-roster-moves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">placed Dean on Injured Reserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the rest of the active roster is healthy and in good shape for Sunday&#8217;s Divisional Round showdown with the Los Angeles Rams. The Eagles rested several veterans on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Wide receiver A.J. Brown was among those veterans, but he was also listed om the report with a knee injury that he&#8217;s had for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I miss practice (when he&#8217;s not able to go) because I&#8217;m a work junkie,&#8221; Brown said on Wednesday after the team practiced at Lincoln Financial Field. &#8220;That&#8217;s the way I try to get better at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;I&#8217;ll be out there&#8221; on the practice field Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Kenny Pickett was a full participant as he continues to recover from injured ribs originally suffered in the Week 16 game in Washington. Defensive tackle Byron Young is in the 21-day practice window to come off Injured Reserve. Young has yet to play in a game this season. He suffered a hamstring injury during practice back in October.<\/p>\n<p>RB Saquon Barkley (Rest)<br \/>\nWR A.J. Brown (Knee\/Rest)<br \/>\nC Cam Jurgens (Rest)<br \/>\nT Jordan Mailata (Rest)<br \/>\nOLB Josh Sweat (Rest)<\/p>\n<p>QB Kenny Pickett (Ribs)<br \/>\nDT Byron Young (Hamstring)<\/p>\n<p>Rams TE Tyler Higbee limited after being hospitalized postgame<\/p>\n<p>Rams Head Coach Sean McVay said that he fully expects tight end Tyler Higbee to play Sunday in Philadelphia. Higbee suffered a chest injury during the Monday night Wild Card win over the Minnesota Vikings. He was <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/video\/sean-mcvay-versatile-tight-end-room-preparing-eagles-running-back-saquon-barkley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hospitalized after spitting up blood<\/a>, per McVay, but was able to travel home with the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Rams are expecting to practice this week in Los Angeles after wildfires forced the game to be moved to the Cardinals&#8217; home stadium in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Three Rams starters did not participate in Wednesday&#8217;s practice. Cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon injured his thigh during the third quarter and had to be replaced in the lineup by Cobie Durant.<\/p>\n<p>Nose tackle Bobby Brown III missed practice with a shoulder injury. He was not on the injury report during the previous week. Brown played 13 snaps on defense and another three on special teams Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Left tackle Alaric Jackson is dealing with a chest injury that kept him sidelined on Monday. Jackson played all 53 offensive snaps against the Vikings and was not on the injury report the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>(*The Rams did not practice on Wednesday. The injury report is an estimation.)<\/p>\n<p>NT Bobby Brown III (Shoulder)<br \/>\nLT Alaric Jackson (Chest)<br \/>\nCB Ahkello Witherspoon (Thigh)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday&#8217;s Injury Report Obviously, the major injury to come out of Sunday&#8217;s Wild Card win over the Green&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[36778,909,7,17416,1014,58,2444,2611,6,910,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-246507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-2024-divisional-rams","9":"tag-all-news-archived","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-injury-report","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-rams","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-losangelesrams","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-com-feature","18":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114939046373291674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}