by John Miller

Eagles RB Brian Westbrook was on the radio talking about his ankle Monday night. High ankle sprain. Have you noticed Andy Reid doesn’t mind his players blabbing about injury details?  When Reggie Brown hurt his hamstring a few weeks ago he admitted he was out for a while.  Bill Belichick, Andy Reid ain’t.   Anyway, you gotta figure Westbrook will miss a couple games.  But think about this… if he can’t go @ Chicago (week 4) or vs. Washington (week 5), Reid might go ahead and sit him @ San Francisco (week 6) because of the week 7 bye.  In this scenario Westbrook is unavailable to fantasy GMs for 5 weeks.

Who’s the handcuff?  It’s not a classic handcuff situation – no Chester Taylor, no Darren Sproles.  Correll Buckhalter will likely get the majority of carries, but how many is that?  Reid will go back to 65/35 pass/run.  Lorenzo Booker will play a lot too, but not if he whiffs on blitz pickups like he did vs. the Steelers.

More from Westbrook himself: “I’m going to do everything it takes. It’s painful. It’s going to be painful. You have ligaments and tendons in there that may have been sprained.”

Note: Eagles radio personality Howard Eskin said two people in the organization told him Westbrook’s swelling isn’t real bad and he’ll try to go Sunday. We’ll see. Eskin is a major fanboy and is always glass half-full.   

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