{"id":119573,"date":"2025-09-05T00:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119573\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:53:08","slug":"eagles-jalen-carter-spits-on-cowboys-dak-prescott-is-ejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119573\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles’ Jalen Carter spits on Cowboys’ Dak Prescott, is ejected"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim McManusSep 5, 2025, 10:47 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Tim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2016 after covering the Eagles for Philadelphia Magazine’s Birds 24\/7, a site he helped create, since 2010.<\/p>\n

PHILADELPHIA — Eagles<\/a> standout defensive tackle Jalen Carter<\/a> was ejected from Thursday night’s game against the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> before the first play from scrimmage.<\/p>\n

There was an injury delay following the opening kickoff for Eagles fullback Ben VanSumeren<\/a>, who remained on the ground for several minutes. During that time, Carter and Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott<\/a> got face-to-face. Cameras showed Carter spit on Prescott as the two began to separate.<\/p>\n

Carter, 24, is considered one of the best defensive tackles in the game. He had 4.5 sacks and 12 tackles for loss to help lead the No. 1-ranked defense in the NFL last season.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys proceeded to go right down the field and score a touchdown on their six-play opening drive, which was capped by a 1-yard TD rush by Javonte Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim McManusSep 5, 2025, 10:47 AM CloseTim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-119573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}