Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Josh McCown played the second half of the team's playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks injured. According to Tim McManus, McCown dealt with a hamstring injury.
He is expected to undergo surgery to repair it on Tuesday.
Josh McCown played the second half vs. Seattle on a torn hamstring and is scheduled to undergo surgery Tuesday, sources tell ESPN.
— Tim McManus (@Tim_McManus) January 10, 2020
McCown stepped in for Carson Wentz after he was knocked out of the game with a concussion. McCown completed 75 percent of his passes for 174 yards, zero touchdowns, and no interceptions.
If McCown left the game, Eagles wide receiver Greg Ward who would have filled in. He was a standout with the Houston Cougars at quarterback, so he would have been a fine fill-in. The one big issue would have been having enough wide outs because Ward was one of the main targets.
Wentz has taken a lot of heat for continually being injured for playoff games. But McCown doesn't think he should be called injury prone.
“I think it’s unfair,” McCown said via Alyssa Adams of CBS Philadelphia. “I get trying to look at patterns and saying a guy misses time so he’s ‘injury prone,’ but look at the injuries and take them on a case by case.
If a guy’s missing a bunch of time because he continues to get joints and different things banged up, but to say after a guy sustains a head injury that he falls in that category, I think is really unfair because it’s totally separate.
And for anybody that has spent anytime playing this game, especially at the highest level to kind of make that attack or observation I think is crap, is trying to make for out of it than there really is because the head stuff is a totally different animal than being able to say someone is injury prone because they have a knee or back or whatever happens to you.
So I thought that was unfair.”
McCown has been the definition of tough his entire career, so if this was his last time in the NFL, it's a great symbol of his career.
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