Jack Ikegwuonu leaps for the ball during a drill as the Eagles workout at the NovaCare Complex in South Philadelphia on June 11, 2009.
(David Maialetti / Staff Photographer)
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Hard to say if the NovaCare practice grass mixture contains much rye. But a body met a body yesterday.
At first, it looked as if Cornelius Ingram was just shaken up. He probably was, given the scare he'd just gotten, but the fifth-round rookie tight end from Florida also sustained a knee contusion in a rookie-camp collision with safety Rashad Baker, the Eagles announced. The team said Ingram should be fine, and ought to be able to return to the field today.
Ingram was not available for comment. Feel free to speculate he might have ended the day relieved. His left knee is the one that underwent ACL surgery after a preseason injury, causing him to miss his senior year and drop in the draft. Banging it in a noncontact drill wasn't optimal.
"Noncontact" means the players aren't wearing pads and they don't tackle one another. But these aren't walk-throughs; pass patterns are run at normal speed. When a quarterback throws up a jump ball, as A.J. Feeley did yesterday, well, obviously, the players aren't equipped with those bumpers in that nifty car commercial, the ones that sense a collision and apply the brakes automatically.
"I was in my Cover 2, I saw the quarterback throwing the ball, I just wanted to make a good play, without trying to purposely hurt him," said Baker, a journeyman veteran and Camden native signed during the offseason. Baker was playing free safety. "I'm about to go check on him right now. Me being a vet, I understand how to practice, I understand when I can't run into my guys. On that particular play, I was just going for the ball."
The only other news of consequence was the signing of rookie free agent defensive tackle Trevor Jenkins (6-1, 287) from Tennessee State. The Eagles needed a DT for this camp, and possibly longer, after veteran free agent signee Amon Gordon suffered an Achilles' injury in last week's drills. *
