Darren Sproles Injury Update: How much time will Eagles RB miss?
Philadelphia Eagles running back Darren Sproles suffered an injury on Sunday. What’s next for the veteran running back?
Most of the time, you can never predict an injury for a player. In a sport that’s as physical as football, injuries come wherever, whenever. Obviously, watching the Philadelphia Eagles, you may know that injuries can occur quite often — especially soft-tissue related mishaps.
While you can’t typically predict who is going to get injured, sometimes, you can assume that individual injury-prone players are destined to miss games. Age and track record has everything to do with that. When the Philadelphia Eagles brought a 36-year-old Darren Sproles back for another go-round, there was surely a major risk they were taking.
Considering that Sproles has missed more than half the season to injuries for the last two years, it almost felt inevitable that Sproles would eventually miss time in 2019 as well. Sure enough, the veteran specialist exited the field early this past Sunday during the team’s fifth game of the season. Now, it looks like he will miss additional time, as well.
What’s the latest on Darren Sproles?
Nobody really saw the play where Sproles got injured. The running back ended up suffering a quadricep strain, indicating it was most likely a non-contact injury. Sproles has a history of soft-tissue injuries, as he missed ten games last season due to a torn hamstring.
It’s unclear just how severe Sproles’ injury is at this time, and it probably never will be until he’s actually cleared for return. As we know, the Eagles didn’t do a stellar job in reporting Sproles’ injury last season. As they labeled him ‘week-to-week’ for a while, Doug Pederson ended up saying the same thing for ten weeks until Sproles returned.
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This year, it looks like Pederson will report the same way. On Monday, when the head coach was asked about an update for Sproles, he didn’t have a timetable. Once again, Pederson detailed Sproles’ injury as one that will go ‘week-to-week,’ indicating that Sproles is out for this week’s game against the Minnesota Vikings.
Considering how last year went, there’s a good chance the Eagles could be without their third-string running back and punt return specialist for quite some time. In his absence, wide receiver Nelson Agholor, and running back Corey Clement will rotate with fielding punts.