The Philadelphia Eagles opened the 21-day practice window for Azeez Ojulari to return from injured reserve, according to an official team announcement.<\/p>\n
The guess here is that an Ojulari activation isn\u2019t imminent. He wasn\u2019t playing all that much prior to going on IR; he was a healthy scratch for the first four weeks before injuries pushed him into playing time. Ojulari logged 67 defensive snaps and one special teams snap in the three games he played before suffering a hamstring injury in Week 7.<\/p>\n
The Eagles have been riding with a four-player edge rusher rotation:<\/p>\n
Joshua Uche is the fifth edge rusher on the roster and he\u2019s played relatively well in limited opportunities. But he hadn\u2019t logged a defensive snap since Week 8 prior to the Eagles mostly resting their starters in Week 18. With the exception of the regular season finale, Uche\u2019s been a healthy scratch since Week 12.<\/p>\n
And so it\u2019d be weird if the Eagles are in a rush to activate Ojulari.<\/p>\n
The thinking here is that the Eagles are opening Ojulari\u2019s window just in case there\u2019s an edge rusher injury or two during their potential playoff run. They\u2019ll hope not to have to activate him but he can gear up to play during this practice window in the event that he is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles opened the 21-day practice window for Azeez Ojulari to return from injured reserve, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,5406],"class_list":{"0":"post-662696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115857182303320064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662696","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=662696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}