{"id":23298,"date":"2014-09-09T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/eagles-mathis-out-8-weeks-barbre-placed-on-ir\/"},"modified":"2014-09-10T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T00:00:28","slug":"eagles-mathis-out-8-weeks-barbre-placed-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/eagles-mathis-out-8-weeks-barbre-placed-on-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles&#8217; Mathis out 8 weeks, Barbre placed on IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Eagles&#8217; offensive line is suddenly depleted following a 34-17 season-opening win over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Guard Evan Mathis and tackle Allen Barbre both left Sunday&#8217;s game with injuries and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Mathis, an All-Pro in 2013, exited the game with a left knee injury. An MRI on the knee showed a sprain that will likely sideline the guard for 4-8 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Mathis will be placed on injured reserve\/designated to return which allows him to practice with the team in six weeks and play in eight.<\/p>\n<p>Barbre, starting in place of the suspended right tackle Lane Johnson, was injured shortly after Mathis with what has been diagnosed as a high ankle sprain. The injury will reportedly require surgery. Barbre and linebacker Najee Goode, who suffered a pectoral injury in the win, were both placed on injured reserve on Tuesday, ending their seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia has addressed the depth issue by signing veteran lineman Wade Smith, a Pro Bowler in 2012 with Houston, to help fill the void until Johnson and Mathis return later in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Eagles signed linebacker Emmanuel Acho and offensive lineman Kevin Graf to the active roster from the practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Eagles&#8217; offensive line is suddenly depleted following a 34-17 season-opening win over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. Guard Evan Mathis and tackle Allen Barbre both left Sunday&#8217;s game with injuries and did not return. Mathis, an All-Pro in 2013, exited the game with a left knee injury. An MRI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[137,64,136],"class_list":["post-23298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-eagles","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23300,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298\/revisions\/23300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}