Football at Four: Going Inside Eagles Jalen Carter Situation and The Plan Until he Returns

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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On Thursday's Football at Four on 973 ESPN South Jersey, Inside the Birds' Adam Caplan details the Jalen Carter situation and the plan to replace him until he returns to play.

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0:00.0	Powered by the Inside the Birds podcast.
0:02.5	It is brought you by the fanatic sports book at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City.
0:06.4	Adam Kaplan's here today as the Eagles get some big news on the injury front.
0:12.2	Usually Adam is on Friday's show for football at 4 and we talk injuries.
0:16.4	Well, we got injury news at the top of today's show.
0:19.1	Adam Kaplan, let's bring you right in and talk a little bit about this.
0:23.0	A procedure on both shoulders here, and this is interesting because they get the procedure on both shoulders.
0:30.6	He hopes to be ready for the playoff run, kind of ambiguous on what this all is here.
0:35.8	So how long has this been an issue here for Jalen Carter? All right, Mike. So let's go back to our reporting when he was drafted. We talked a lot about on your show and all of our platforms about the off-to-field concerns. It's been well detailed. But what we added that really wasn't out there very much, if at all, was that he had a shoulder problem. And clubs were concerned about it. It wasn't that he couldn't play with it. It's how long could he go? Could he have an eight-year career, 10-year? There was a problem. We didn't know it was both, though. Now, what the thing is, Mike, we don't know if one more, you know, like, did something something else happen recently we know he had the
1:12.8	bad shoulder fact Mike he came to training care if you recall that the uh the eagles
1:17.0	put out there train camp injury report and in the first day it said shoulder oh
1:21.3	was wow this is he's had shoulder pretty he's been on the injury report a lot with with
1:25.4	the shoulder issue because he was drafted but we you know we don't know what the, if, what happened to the other shoulder, but, um, you both were done. So Mike, this, remember now, the, this is a concern. Yes, he's had this cleaned up, and we don't know exactly what kind of procedure, you know, if it was just a scope fine, but it doesn't mean that he's going to be back in two weeks.
1:47.4	You just, you worry about this long-term, Mike.
1:50.3	It's, that's, there wasn't that concern that we got from clubs that we talked to.
1:56.5	A lot of people in Scouts who had guys who had the areas from Georgia.
2:02.6	But it was never like, okay, well, he may not play six or seven years.
2:06.2	It could go.
2:07.6	This could be a recurring issue.
2:09.6	But you worry about this because shoulders, man, that's, you know,
2:13.9	that it can become a problem.
2:17.1	Right.
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