Jason Babin, Riley Cooper add to Eagles' injury woes

[BigDinAZ]

The injury bug continues to bite down hard on the Philadelphia Eagles in the early going of training camp.
Star defensive end Jason Babin and wide receiver Riley Cooper both sustained injuries in Saturday's practice, according to Jeff McLane of Philly.com. Babin strained his left calf, while Cooper broke his left collarbone.

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[nablives]

Eh, Babin's the bigger threat, and it sounds like he'll be okay by the time games count.

[BigDinAZ]

Philadelphia Eagles Pro Bowl defensive end Jason Babin suffered a calf strain that will require an MRI, but head coach Andy Reid said the MRI was delayed because Babin had swallowed a thermometer. Considering that Babin is the sort of individual who has to be told by management he can't run with the bulls in Pamplona, it wasn't a stretch to think that Babin swallowed, perhaps intentionally, a thermometer us mortals use when we've got the sniffles.

Unfortunately, the real story isn't nearly as gnarly as it sounds.

The key phrase in Reid's quote is "those thermometers". As explained by Zach Berman of the Philadelphia Inquirer, "those thermometers" Reid referred to is a pill-like device that monitors a player's core temperature from the inside. Babin was one of over two dozen Eagles were having their core temperatures monitored in this fashion when he strained his calf on Saturday.


Babin will eventually undergo an MRI, but he has to, um, "expel the device" beforehand. The injury is not believed to be serious and Babin is expected to miss about a week of camp.


In other Eagles' injury news, wide receiver Riley Cooper is expected to miss six weeks with a broken collarbone. Reid does not expect to add another receiver to the roster to account for Cooper's absence.

[Eskimo]

It must be a pretty minor fracture to project return to play after six weeks - it usually takes longer for full bone strength to return which would be important at a contact position like WR.

I keep remember that Michigan St WR who broke collarbones in the offseasons of his first two seasons after being drafted #2 overall many moons ago. Charlie Rogers, I think.

[DFWJC]

The Eagles are deep at WR. Cooper is pretty good but he was still only WR4.

[arglebargle]

I hadn't realized that thermometer-retriever was quite so nasty a job....