When Eagles coach Chip Kelly met the media on Friday, he said that tight end Zach Ertz had a core muscle injury and would miss the entire preseason schedule with designs on returning for the start of the regular season.
Kelly also said that Ertz saw Dr. William Meyers, who operated on Texans running back Arian Foster recently and has become the NFL’s go-to guy for sports hernia surgery in recent years. He can add a notch on his operating room door for Ertz.
The team announced Friday afternoon that Ertz has had surgery to repair his injury. Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the surgery was done to repair a partial groin tear rather than a sports hernia and that the expectation remains that he’ll be ready for the start of the regular season.
Time will tell if that prognosis holds up as Ertz still has to recover from the operation, do rehab work and then get up to speed on the practice field. Brent Celek remains the starter at tight end with Trey Burton and a clutch of undrafted rookies behind him.
