{"id":85679,"date":"2025-08-21T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85679\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:21:07","slug":"source-eagles-wr-johnny-wilson-to-have-season-ending-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85679\/","title":{"rendered":"Source – Eagles WR Johnny Wilson to have season-ending surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim McManusAug 22, 2025, 05:03 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> wide receiver Johnny Wilson<\/a> will undergo season-ending knee and ankle surgery, a league source confirmed.<\/p>\n

The injury occurred during Tuesday’s practice. Wilson appeared to get rolled up on during a Saquon Barkley<\/a> run play and went awkwardly to the ground. He was assisted off the field to the medical tent, heavily favoring his left leg, before eventually being carted inside.<\/p>\n

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Wilson, a 2024 sixth-round pick out of Florida State, seemed on track to make the 53-man roster as the fourth wide receiver. He has unique size for the position (6-foot-6, 228 pounds). The Eagles value his blocking as well as his ability to sky for 50-50 balls, as he did in the preseason opener against the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> when he finished with three catches for 73 yards.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Inquirer was first with the news.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has several receivers vying for spots behind A.J. Brown<\/a>, DeVonta Smith<\/a> and Jahan Dotson<\/a>, including Ainais Smith and undrafted rookie Darius Cooper<\/a>, who has impressed this summer. The Eagles also recently traded for John Metchie III<\/a>, sending tight end Harrison Bryant<\/a> and a fifth-round draft pick in 2026 to the Houston Texans<\/a> for Metchie and a 2026 sixth-round pick.<\/p>\n

Wilson started four games last season and finished with five catches for 38 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim McManusAug 22, 2025, 05:03 AM CloseTim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-85679","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\/85679","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=85679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}