Slight heart palpitations when Miles Sanders appeared on the Eagles’ injury report today, listed as “week to week” with a lower body injury. Didn’t seem great on the surface since the Birds’ season begins in… <checks notes> …a couple of weeks.

No worries though. Apparently the injury is not too bad, as Tim McManus writes at ESPN:

The early indication is that the injury is not serious and that the team is trying to be smart and cautious, with the priority of having Sanders ready for the season.

“He will be ready to play,” a source said.

Sanders, 23, set team records for scrimmage yards (1,327) and rushing yards (818) by a rookie while finishing eighth in the NFL in all-purpose yards (1,641) last season. He did all of that despite starting the season as the No. 2 behind Jordan Howard and playing 53% of the offensive snaps.

Good to hear. They’ve already got Javon Hargrave and Derek Barnett in the “weeks” category, so we don’t need to add anybody else to the injury list.

Associate head coach and running backs leader Duuuuuuce Staley also happened to speak today at training camp, virtually, and was asked if he felt like Sanders could handle short-yardage situations or whether the Eagles felt the need to outsource a bit of the load.

This was his answer:


I think we have good backs. I think that Miles can do it all, and when you have a guy like Miles that can make people miss, that can lower his shoulder and also run you over, you want to put the ball in his hands as much as possible and you trust him. I think that’s what we are. We have Corey [Clement], we have Boston [Scott], we have a cast of younger guys, also, and we’ll see what they can do here shortly. But as much as I can give the ball to Miles and let him create and go out there and just kind of just trust him to do the right thing, I think do you it as much as possible.

Volume. Give him the ball and let him make it happen; just don’t run the guy into the ground. They’re smart with their backs and they’ll do the right thing.

Go Birds.