Former 9-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle Jason Peters is out for the rest of the season after he suffered a knee injury during his team's Monday Night Football game against Washington. Head coach Doug Pederson announced that Peters will miss the rest of the season.
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Eagles HC Doug Pederson said OT Jason Peters (knee) and LB Jordan Hicks (Achilles) are out for the season.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 24, 2017
He had to be carted off the field during the game against their hated NFC East rivals.
https://twitter.com/guga31bb/status/922649986558459906
Peters was put in a leg air cast as he was carted off the field.
The injury is devastating to a sure-fire future Hall of Famer:
.@Eagles fans chanting Jason Peters' name as he gets carted off due to injury. 🙏#WASvsPHI #FlyEaglesFly https://t.co/mOtICVwpc6
— NFL (@NFL) October 24, 2017
Could very well be the end of Jason Peters' career, and he's leaving on a cart encouraging his teammates. HOF player, HOF leader.
— Kyle Neubeck (@KyleNeubeck) October 24, 2017
Peters was (obviously) ruled out for the rest of the game.
Peters started 166 games over his 14-year career, playing five years for the Buffalo Bills and nine for the Eagles.
This is brutal news for an Eagles offense that has hummed along through the first half of the season. With Peters at such an advanced age for a lineman —- he's 35 —- this could be the kind of injury that forces him into retirement.
Peters was originally signed by the Buffalo Bills after going undrafted in 2004 wanted to be a tight end, but converted to offensive tackle under the tutelage of offensive line coach Mike McNally. He won the starting right tackle job for the Bills in 2006 and was named to his first Pro Bowl in 2007. He was then traded to the Eagles in 2009 where he earned all but two of his Pro Bowl trips.
