The Philadelphia Eagles will be without one of their best defensive players Monday in Los Angeles and potentially longer.<\/p>\n
Jalen Carter underwent procedures Monday on both shoulders and is considered week to week, a league source confirmed to CBS News Philadelphia. \u00a0Carter will miss at least the Chargers game on Monday night, the source said.<\/p>\n
Carter, 24, has two sacks, 36 total pressures, five batted passes and 26 hurries in 10 games this season. The third-year DT often draws double teams, but still finds ways to pressure opposing quarterbacks and change games.<\/p>\n
The injury helps explain Carter’s decreased usage in the Eagles’ 24-15 loss<\/a> to the Bears on Black Friday. Carter played 70.1% of the team’s defensive snaps, his second-lowest of the season. In his first nine games, Carter averaged 87.4% of the team’s snaps. He didn’t play a snap in the Birds’ season opener after being ejected for spitting on Cowboys QB Dak Prescott<\/a>\u00a0before the first play.<\/p>\n Without Carter for at least the Chargers game, the Eagles (8-4)\u00a0will rely more on Jordan Davis, Moro Ojomo and Byron Young. Young played 43.7% of the defensive snaps against Chicago, his second-highest of the season. Rookie Ty Robinson, who has dressed for just six games this season, could dress and see more defensive snaps with Carter’s absence.<\/p>\n The Eagles are back in action Monday night against the Chargers (8-4) at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n Pat Gallen<\/p>\n contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles will be without one of their best defensive players Monday in Los Angeles and potentially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4539,4849,28,69,4538,71,70],"class_list":["post-52287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-jalen-carter","tag-national-football-league","tag-pennsylvania","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\/52287","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=52287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}