EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Rookie Sydney Brown will miss his third straight sport because the Eagles face the Jets on Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium.

Brown (hamstring) got here into the weekend listed as questionable after lacking the final two video games with the damage.

Without starter Justin Evans — who was placed on IR with a knee damage — and Brown the Eagles will begin veteran Terrell Edmunds subsequent to Reed Blankenship. They’re just a little gentle within the secondary.

Here’s an entire take a look at the Eagles’ inactives:

DT Jalen Carter (ankle)
CB Darius Slay (knee)
S Sydney Brown (hamstring)
DT Marlon Tuipulotu (triceps)
QB Tanner McKee
RB Rashaad Penny 
TE Albert Okwuegbunam

The Eagles are additionally with out Evans (knee) and Quez Watkins (hamstring), who had been placed on IR late within the week. Both of these gamers should miss at the least 4 video games earlier than a attainable return.

On Saturday, the Eagles activated Nakobe Dean off IR, which implies he’ll make his return in opposition to the Jets. Dean has missed the final 4 video games with a meals damage he suffered in New England in Week 1. Expect him to take again his beginning center linebacker place.

Both WR Devon Allen and CB Mekhi Garner had been elevated for this sport from the apply squad. This will likely be Allen’s second profession sport. It’ll be Garner’s first profession NFL sport.

Punter Braden Mann had already been elevated thrice so the Eagles had been compelled to signal him to the 53-man roster this week. They elected to stay with him.

The Jets will likely be with out each of their beginning cornerbacks, Sauce Gardner and D.J. Reed, who had been each dominated out with concussions. This was going to be one of the vital intriguing matchups of the sport between the Eagles’ wideouts and the Jets’ corners. But with out Gardner and Reed, the Eagles have a determined benefit right here.