How Eagles are making sure Sydney Brown stays ready during long injury layoff originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
He can’t practice. He can’t play. He can’t do anything but wait. And who knows how long that’ll be.
When you’re in Sydney Brown’s position, it’s easy to feel disconnected and get discouraged.
After a promising finish to last year, Brown suffered a torn ACL in the season finale against the Giants in January and underwent surgery two weeks later.
He’s been on the Physically Unable to Perform list since training camp started and with opening day just 16 days away, he’s likely to go on regular-season PUP when final cuts are made on Tuesday. That would mean he couldn’t play until Week 5 at the earliest, which would be Oct. 13 against the Browns.
That would be about 9 ½ months from the day he got hurt.
It’s tough timing. Brown got hurt so late in the 2023 season it’s going to cut into his 2024 season.
Brown hasn’t been made available to speak since camp began, but teammate Reed Blankenship spoke after practice Tuesday about how he and the other defensive backs have made sure Brown is staying engaged and is in a good place mentally as he deals with this extended layoff.
“We don’t leave any man behind, no doubt,” Blankenship said. “He’s a smart guy. He’s an athlete and he’s always there. Even in breaks, we’re always together, communicating. He’ll be all right. He’ll be just fine. That’s one guy you really don’t have to worry about.
“You saw him making plays … last year as a rookie, so yeah, it’s mentally tough, but at the end of the day he knows he has us and we’re going to pick him up.”
Brown is a fixture at practice even though he can’t practice.
Without fail, he lines up 30 or 40 yards behind the defense studying a play sheet and then mimics exactly what he would do if he were on the field.
Red zone? Then he just backs up out of the end zone.
The Eagles don’t give out timelines on injured players, so there’s no…
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Publish date : 2024-08-21 00:58:44
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