Jordan Mailata injury: Eagles left tackle suffers sprained knee in practice

<div> <figure> <img alt="San Francisco 49ers v Philadelphia Eagles" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/6TULzEVmx-zq815Fea6u3Fe3X-w=/0x0:3000x2000/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69904263/1341561299.0.jpg"> <figcaption>Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images</figcaption> </figure> <p>Not great!</p> <p id="DRlB8V">Ahead of their Monday Night Football matchup against the Cowboys, the Eagles get more bad injury news. Starting left tackle Jordan Mailata is not at practice today after suffering a knee sprain at the end of practice on Wednesday, leaving his status for Monday’s game in Dallas in doubt.</p> <p id="uhBcKU">Yikes. </p> <p id="ldcTLq">If Mailata is out, 2019 first-round pick Andre Dillard will have to start. Dillard hasn’t started a game since November 24, 2019, a 17-3 home loss to Seattle where Dillard played just 34 percent of the Birds’ offensive snaps. Going from Mailata to Dillard is unquestionably a downgrade.</p> <p id="C89bqW">This comes on the heels of Sunday’s loss to the <a href="https://www.ninersnation.com/">49ers</a> where the Eagles lost Brandon Graham for the year after he tore his Achilles and Brandon Brooks had a pectoral injury that should sideline him for a good bit of time. The Eagles will now be without three of their top-tier players, all guys who play in the trenches.</p> <p id="1mvaXj">It feels like the Eagles should’ve won against San Francisco, a loss that Eagles fans understandably have taken to heart. Losing BG and Brooks is huge and will certainly affect this season in a major way. </p> <p id="E9W1Q5">The vibes are not great for the Birds right now. It’ll take inexperienced players like Dillard, Landon Dickerson and others to step up and make this a game on Monday.</p> <h3 id="9BraEt">UPDATE:</h3> <div id="IZvLag"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Indications are <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Eagles?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Eagles</a> LT Jordan Mailata (knee) won’t play Monday against the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cowboys?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cowboys</a> and it’ll be Andre Dillard in his spot. Sources say Mailata’s absence shouldn’t be a long-term thing though.</p>— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeGarafolo/status/1441461173975752708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2021</a> </blockquote> </div> <p id="8hMUBB">Welp.</p> </div>