Comeback Season

The No. 3-seeded Philadelphia Eagles are seemingly improving health-wise ahead of Wild Card weekend against the depleted No. 6-seeded San Francisco 49ers.

On the latest episode of “Inside The Birds,” Geoff Mosher and Adam Caplan discussed the injury situation plaguing both teams ahead of Sunday’s matchup.

GETTY IMAGES: RT Lane Johnson returned to practice on Wednesday after missing the final seven games of the 2025 regular season.

Lane Johnson

Geoff Mosher: “Thursday’s practice is really important for Lane. This is his first time out on the practice field taking vertical reps in a real practice environment since the Lions game. How he responds to that practice is important. While it’s a great first step to get him out there, the whole team and the medical staff really wants to know Thursday morning how he is feeling after that practice and will he be able to do it again and again. He cleared step one, but just because he’s out there on Wednesday, don’t definitively think everything’s great.”

Adam Caplan: “This is his first work in nearly two months. It’s a mid-foot sprain, he has never had this type of injury before…You generally have to wear a different shoe, it’s awkward, different. It doesn’t mean he can’t play. Lane knows his body.”

Nakobe Dean

Caplan: “The chances are good that Dean will be in the lineup, but he didn’t take all of the first team reps on Wednesday. Things are looking up for him but he has to get through practice.”

Marcus Epps

Caplan: “He has a concussion. He had symptoms last Thursday, this was a good thing he was out there so he’s progressing through the protocol.”

Ricky Pearsall

Caplan: “He has had the worst luck. He’s very gifted, their best receiver. He missed six games in a row then two out of the last three. He had a PCL which has not gone away, an ankle, and they just added the hamstring…I would put Pearsall in the very questionable category, which is worse than questionable.”

49ers Linebackers

Caplan: “Fred Warner with the right ankle dislocation or fracture. He has a chance, not great chance, if they made it to the championship game to potentially play. Tatum Bethune tore his groin, he’s having surgery and done until next season. Luke Gifford, a fill-in linebacker, has a quad strain, didn’t work on Wednesday. Right now, it’s going to be Eric Kendricks, who’s near the end of his career, and Curtis Robinson who has been on and off their roster for a number of years, and Garrett Wallow. Dee Winters is considered questionable with an ankle injury.”

Trent Williams

Mosher: “I think the Trent Williams injury is 10-times worse than the linebacker issue.”

– Benjamin Paul is a staff writer for InsideTheBirds.com.