The road to Super Bowl LVIII begins this weekend with the six NFL wild card matchups.
While they don’t play until Monday night, the Philadelphia Eagles got some encouraging news on Thursday with DeVonta Smith being a full participant at practice after missing Week 18 with an ankle injury. Quarterback Jalen Hurts, who dislocated the middle finger on his throwing hand, said his recovery is ‘progressing in the right way.”
Wide receiving A.J. Brown, who suffered a knee injury against the New York Giants last week, did not take part in practice.
Meanwhile, Detroit Lions tight end made a surprise appearance at practice on Thursday. According to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press, LaPorta said he took reps at practice and was “optimistic” about playing in Sunday night’s wild-card game against the Los Angeles Rams.
“I’ll probably play with the knee brace as a precautionary thing, just to make sure that hyperextension doesn’t happen again in the rare case that the cleat gets caught in the turf again and something bad were to happen,” LaPorta said. “So I think you would see me with a knee brace out there, but I’m not sure how much it would inhibit me or practically keep it from happening again. That was a fluke thing.”
Here is the rest of the NFL Super Wild Card Weekend injury report.
HOUSTON TEXANS
CLEVELAND BROWNS
MIAMI DOLPHINS
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
PITTSBURGH STEELERS
BUFFALO BILLS
GREEN BAY PACKERS
DALLAS COWBOYS
DETROIT LIONS
LOS ANGELES RAMS
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS
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