No one outside Darren Sproles’ immediate family felt the pain of Sproles’ torn knee ligament, broken radius, and injured wrist ligaments last Sunday more than Dave Fipp.
Fipp is the Eagles’ special teams coach, and Sproles, 34, has made the Pro Bowl in each of the last three seasons as a returner. But Sproles’ 2017 seaason is over, as the Eagles travel to play the Chargers, the team that drafted Sproles in 2005, in the fourth round, from Kansas State.
“We’re going to miss Darren. There’s no way you could ever replace him,” Fipp said this week.