{"id":308910,"date":"2026-10-17T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308910\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:02:07","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-quarterback-jalen-hurts-placed-on-injured-reserve-will-miss-4-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308910\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts placed on injured reserve, will miss 4 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Eagles have placed quarterback Jalen Hurts on injured reserve, which means he will miss at least four games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Eagles\/status\/2111549092958486675?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> the move Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hurts has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/eagles-jalen-hurts-blood-clot\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">superficial blood clot<\/a> in his leg, the team said earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The injury first came to light on Oct. 8 when Hurts visited the training room after practice for treatment on his calf. Hurts said he had been cleated during the Rams game on Oct. 4, but he continued to participate fully in practice over the next few days and play against the Jaguars in London last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tanner McKee is the Eagles&#8217; backup quarterback and is expected to start Sunday. McKee has thrown five touchdowns and one interception in six career games, two of them starts.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Eagles\/status\/2111219707307077788?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Eagles said<\/a> Friday they had also signed quarterback Joe Milton.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles have placed quarterback Jalen Hurts on injured reserve, which means he will miss at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6108,4849,69,4538,71,70],"class_list":["post-308910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-jalen-hurts","tag-national-football-league","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}