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Rookie defensive end Ricky Sapp has been placed on injured reserve and is out for the season.
Sapp had a knee injury and "tweaked it" during special teams practice Sunday. Coach Andy Reid said earlier today that Sapp might need knee surgery, and Sapp confirmed to your Eagletarian, via Twitter, that he will undergo surgery.
The stashing of Sapp on IR led to the Eagles claiming defensive end Pannel Egboh off waivers from the Texans.
Originally a rookie free agent signing of San Francisco in 2009, Egboh (6-6, 287) spent training camp with the 49ers but was released prior to the start of the regular season. He spent the final four weeks of the 2009 campaign on the Texans practice squad after being signed on Dec. 9.
Egboh had 15.5 sacks in 40 career games at Stanford.
The timing of the Sapp injury is fortunate, since Sapp, a fifth-rounder from Clemson, didn't impress as a linebacker in the spring and got a late, slow start when moved back to DE. He was probably not going to make the 53-man roster.
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To read our earlier reports from today, click here.
Les
Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News
since 2002.
Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les
only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no
penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite
what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News
from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much
lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their
two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
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Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with the paper covering the
Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a
selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre
and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
him on Twitter.
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