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. Carter will miss at least the Chargers game on Monday night, the source said. He is hoping to be as close to 100% as possible in the lead-up to the postseason. <\/p>\n
Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said earlier this week that Carter was dealing with a shoulder ailment, but did not get into specifics.\u00a0<\/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) will 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 \n More from CBS News\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":3,"featured_media":424795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,66647,9338,1448,2830,1311,1105,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-424794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-jalen-carter","10":"tag-national-football-league","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115663047890076377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}