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There is a slim chance left tackle Duane Brown could return this week

Seattle Seahawks left tackle Duane Brown recently underwent knee surgery and there is a very slight chance he could return to play in Philly.

The Seattle Seahawks have sorely missed left tackle Duane Brown, who has been inactive for the last two matchups with a knee injury.

“His knee was really irritated in general, it was kind of a pissed off knee,” coach Pete Carroll said Monday. “He needs to come back from that. We’re trying to get it quieted down and all that and see if he can get back out. Structurally, he’s in good shape We just got to make sure that his knee is quieted down and he doesn’t have swelling and that kind of stuff and he can get moving again. I don’t know if that will happen this week or not.”

Brown recently underwent minor knee surgery to try to correct the problem. While the procedure was a success, Carroll said he won’t know how far along Brown is until at least Wednesday or Thursday.

“He did some things this weekend to try to help him along the process,” Carroll noted. “By the end of the week, he has it in his mind maybe there’s a chance he can make it back.

“That would be a miraculous recovery.”

With or without Brown, the Seahawks are slated to take on the Eagles this Sunday in Philadelphia at 1:40 p.m. PT.

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Who will be most impactful in return, Marshawn Lynch or J.J. Watt?

The Seattle Seahawks and Houston Texans will both be seeing the return of a key player to the lineup Week 17 – Marshawn Lynch and J.J. Watt.

The Seattle Seahawks and Houston Texans are both looking ahead to the playoffs with the return of a key player back to the lineup.

Running back Marshawn Lynch was re-signed to the roster over a year removed from football to assist in Seattle’s depleted run game. J.J. Watt, who sustained a torn pectoral muscle Week 8, is resuming practice and could be available by the Texans’ first postseason game.

Here’s a look at which player could be most impactful for his team as the clubs head into the playoffs.

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Marcus Davenport received second opinion, diagnosed with Lisfranc injury

New Orleans Saints defensive end Marcus Davenport was reportedly diagnosed with a Lisfranc injury after consulting with a specialist.

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New Orleans Saints fans were struck with bad news on Tuesday evening when it was reported that second-year defensive end Marcus Davenport suffered a serious foot injury during Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers, and that the ailment was expected to require season-ending surgery.

On Wednesday, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport clarified that Davenport is dealing with a Lisfranc injury in his foot, which was diagnosed after he received a second opinion from Green Bay-based specialist Dr. Robert Anderson. Anderson performed the corrective surgery on Davenport’s turf toe injury after the 2018 season concluded, though it’s unclear whether he’ll be the doctor to treat Davenport after this Lisfranc issue.

So what is a Lisfranc injury? These issues strike the middle of the foot, hitting the long metatarsal bones that maintains the arch in the foot and allows people to push off and accelerate. It’s a painful condition that prevents those affected from putting weight on the injured foot, and is more common in football and rugby than, say, basketball or baseball.

The next question: how long will Davenport be out? According to a study completed before the 2018 NFL season, NFL athletes are typically sidelined for 10 months after surgery, give or take as much as three months. Every injury and every player is different, and their sample size was limited to 47 athletes (35 from football, and 12 from rugby). So some variance is to be expected.

It’s not realistic to expect the 6-foot-6, 265-pound Davenport to return as quickly as Baltimore Ravens rookie Marquise Brown, the 5-foot-9, 166-pound wide receiver who missed just seven months. A more comparable situation would be Washington Redskins defensive lineman Jonathan Allen (6-foot-3, 300 pounds), who went down with the same injury five weeks into his 2017 rookie season but returned in time for training camp — an absence of about eight months.

Davenport hasn’t had surgery yet, so there isn’t even a projected time table for his return in place. But precedent suggests he could miss a game or two to start the 2020 season, though things obviously could go better or worse depending on how his body responds to treatment.

Coincidentally, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton spent most of the 2019 season trying to avoid surgery, but he went under the knife on Monday for an injury that’s comparable to what Davenport is experiencing. New York-based Dr. Martin O’Malley operated on Newton, and the Panthers don’t yet have any expectations of when Newton will be ready to play football again. His situation (and Davenport’s) illustrates just how common these kinds of injuries are in football, and how quickly things can escalate in such a physically-demanding game.

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