Zach Ertz has core muscle surgery, to miss preseason

Dr. William Meyers, who recently fixed the groin of Houston Texans running back Arian Foster, performed the surgery on Ertz in Philadelphia.

According to Nick Fierro of McCall.com, the Eagles now say Ertz was operated on at this time so as to fix a “core muscle” injury.

Chip Kelly did not reveal the medical plans for Ertz in his pre-practice press conference. He started five games. He can add a notch on his operating room door for Ertz.

Ertz has been durable since getting drafted in the second round of the 2013 NFL draft.

Center Jason Kelce informed the Philadelphia Daily News that Ertz’s tear was not as vital because the one which sidelined Kelce for 5 weeks final season.

Burton was an offensive standout at Florida, scoring 20 total touchdowns in four years as a Gator, but Tomlinson, Gleichert and Tukes were all blocking-oriented tight ends in college. The release of James Casey has left the team a bit thin at the position. “Eric Tomlinson came out the last two days and made some big catches for us”. And Justin Tukes is starting to really come along. “Since James left, I kind of took the third tight-end role, so I was taking all the threes”.

“One byproduct of not being able to have Zach for a couple of games in the preseason, it will give those guys an opportunity to show what they can do”.