Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown, and DeVonta Smith are all expected to play for the Eagles in the Wild Card Round against the Green Bay Packers.
Nick Sirianni confirmed that wide receiver A.J. Brown is on track to play Sunday. The Eagles aren't worried about any rust with the three main drivers of their passing game despite the trio not going through a full practice together in three weeks. Quarterback Jalen Hurts is back after clearing concussion protocol. Hurts practiced in a limited capacity Wednesday, a full capacity Thursday, and was cleared by an independent neurologist.
Brown was held out of Thursday's practice due to a lingering knee injury and to rest before returning to the field Friday. Smith, meanwhile, experienced back tightness prior to Friday's workout and was held out of practice to avoid further tightness in the cold weather. Both players are expected to be available Sunday. The on-and-off nature of their availability means the quarterback and his top two targets haven't had a full practice together since they prepared for their Week 16 road game vs. the Washington Commanders, a game Hurts played just five minutes in before being concussed on a designed run. Hurts, who said this concussion was his first, said he was happy to be back in a normal routine this week and said he feels “ready to go.” Sirianni said the Eagles will continue to try to protect Hurts as much as possible in the running game and encourage him to protect himself when he’s scrambling. The Eagles offense obviously works at its best when there’s the threat of Hurts running. After three weeks, the Eagles have Hurts back. And unless anything drastic happens, the Eagles will have their full complement of offensive players. They have only played three games this season with Brown, Smith, and tight end Dallas Goedert. Brown has been dealing with the knee injury since after the Steelers game. He did not practice at all last week while the Eagles rested a handful of starters. But Brown on Wednesday left practice after only a few minutes, saying on Friday that it was just a “miscommunication” and he wasn’t supposed to be practicing. Brown said he did extra cardio and was present during all walk-throughs, but the scaling back in his practice week was to “try to take stress off myself.” Brown was injured in the Eagles’ regular-season finale last year and did not play in their playoff loss to Tampa. “You live for these types of games. It’s only going to get bigger. The good thing about all of this is that we’ve been there before and we’ve got something to fall back on and push through. “I know I’m banged up. But everybody is. I got to be out there, give it my all playing for my teammates and the city. I felt miserable last year just to let it go like that and I couldn’t put my hand on it. This time it has to be different.
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