TAMPA — The Eagles shall be with out beginning security Reed Blankenship once they face the Buccaneers within the wild-card spherical on Monday night time at Raymond James Stadium.
Blankenship, 24, is formally inactive.
Blankenship suffered a groin harm in Week 18 towards the Giants and got here into the weekend listed as questionable. He was unable to observe all week. Blankenship did check out that injured groin on the sphere in entrance of trainers effectively earlier than inactives had been introduced.
Along with being with out Blankenship, the Eagles are additionally with out rookie security Sydney Brown, who suffered an ACL harm within the common season finale and is out for the season.
In the course of the week of observe, nickel cornerback Avonte Maddox was enjoying security subsequent to veteran Kevin Byard, who’s the one wholesome security on the 53-man roster. Maddox has performed security earlier than and mentioned it wasn’t an enormous adjustment. Count on to see Maddox again there tonight as a result of the Eagles have Bradley Roby and Eli Ricks obtainable to play nickel cornerback.
Right here’s the whole record of Eagles’ inactives:
WR A.J. Brown (knee)
S Sydney Brown (knee)
S Reed Blankenship (groin)
QB Tanner McKee
OL Tyler Steen
DT Moro Ojomo
RB Rashaad Penny
In the meantime, Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield (ribs, ankle) is energetic for this sport. He got here into the weekend listed as questionable and had hassle getting by the Bucs’ 9-0 win over the Panthers final week. The additional day possible helped Mayfield this week.
The Eagles elevated observe squad defensive backs Tristin McCollum and Mekhi Garner for this sport. The Eagles didn’t put Sydney Brown on IR, so neither of those gamers was signed to the energetic roster. However observe squad elevations reset within the playoffs. And with the accidents to some safeties, the Eagles wanted extra depth.
If the No. 5-seeded Eagles are capable of pull out a win towards the No. 4-seeded Buccaneers, they’d journey to face the Lions subsequent Sunday for a 3 p.m. sport. The Lions took down the Rams on Sunday, profitable their first playoff sport for the reason that 1991 season.
Whereas the Bucs (9-8) have received 5 of their final six coming into the playoffs, the Eagles (11-6) have misplaced 5 of their final six.
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