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The Eagles needed to trim their roster to 75 ahead of Tuesday’s 4 ET deadline. Gardner started a handful of games before suffering a season-ending foot injury in 2015. Brandon Brooks is Philadelphia’s new starting right guard.

After scoring four touchdowns over the first three weeks, Watson finally cooled off with his first quiet game of the year. Jordan Love couldn’t get the deep ball going in this game and funneled the short targets to Tucker Kraft and Matthew Golden, leaving Watson without much to do. For a player known for having a low floor, 47 yards is a stunningly reasonable floor game. Watson is simply too good at picking up chunk gains to have the bottom truly fall out. He remains a boom/bust WR2 for his Week 5 date with the Bears.

Bryant took a big hit over the middle on a second half reception against the Niners and was down on the turf for some time before being helped onto the cart. Looking dejected, Bryant was taken to the locker room. The oft-injured Bryant could be facing yet another extended absence. That would likely boost playing time and targets for Courtland Sutton and possibly Marvin Mims.

Jeanty exited late in the third quarter with what appeared to be a right leg injury, but was back on the field to take a handoff on the next possession. With nearly a full quarter of play left in the game, we’ll see if Jeanty can finish this one out as the Raiders look to push their record to 4-0 for the season.

Surtain went down with a lower leg injury late in the second half and needed help getting to the Denver locker room. It was a non-contact injury. The Broncos also lost starting corner Riley Moss. Extended absences for Moss and Surtain would make the Broncos vulnerable to most opposing passing attacks, including the Chargers in Week 5.

Doing his best Isaac TesLaa impression, Cooper is now up to three touchdowns on only five catches this season. His first score today was a fluke 18-yarder where he turned a Jalen Hurts end zone interception into six after he wrestled the ball away from the Quentin Lake. His second was a 10-yarder where the Rams somewhat understandably simply stopped covering him in the painted area. Cooper is one of the only Birds stepping up right now, but his paltry targets total through four appearances — 10 — means he’s not about to push for WR4 status even with DeVonta Smith (hamstring) on the shelf.

McConkey was questionable to play in this contest, and aggravated the injury in the first half. The wideouts next chance to play will be in Week 5 against Denver, but obviously he’s far from a guaranteed go for that game. He finished Week 4 with no catches on two targets.

Wicks was in theory the Eagles’ No. 1 receiver with DeVonta Smith (hamstring) sidelined, but in reality he does not really have a “scaleable” skill-set. It wasn’t surprising Wicks and Jalen Hurts failed to get anything going down the field with the Rams constantly in Hurts’ grill in rainy conditions. Smith seems to be looking at a multi-week absence, but Wicks will be hard-pressed to rise above WR4 status in 12-team leagues.

We’re waiting for an official diagnosis on this, but Jeanty appeared to have his leg rolled up on by a defender while being tackled in the backfield. Jeanty was seen walking gingerly to the field after going down and was tended to by trainers. Rookie Mike Washington will takeover in Jeanty’s absence.

Ertz now has three catches for 22 yards in two games since he was added as a triage option in Dallas Goedert’s (knee) absence. Not that our expectations were high, but today’s statline was certainly underwhelming with DeVonta Smith (hamstring) joining Goedert on the shelf. Goedert has yet to resume practicing, meaning we are likely in for another week of Ertz fill-in status in Week 5 against the Jaguars.