He suffered a concussion in December against Tampa Bay. With the Eagles playing their next game on Thursday Night Football just four days later, he was unable to clear protocol in time. So the streak started anew, and now it's been 58 straight games and counting that the year-old has suited up.
He's officially listed as questionable for Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons , but will extend that number to 59 despite suffering a broken rib this past week against the Giants. Now in his 10th NFL season, the fifth-round pick out of Cincinnati has gutted through worse. He played a full 16 games with a torn labrum in his shoulder, and another half-season with double groin tears. He had hip surgery to repair another torn labrum on top of sports hernia surgery days after that year ended.
Brent Celek: Probably my rookie year, when I played with a torn labrum [in the shoulder] for the entire year. That was the most challenging mentally because I knew there was an issue and there was nothing I could do from keeping my arm from popping out of the socket, you know?
Celek: Countless. It didn't feel good. Any time my arm would get in this position [lifts arm up with elbow bent], it would pop out the front. It would sublux. Tight end Brent Celek has only known the Philadelphia Eagles during his professional career, but with close to five million dollars on the hook in , Brent Celek represents a potential roster cut prior to the NFL calendar year. Arrowhead Addict Here's how Brent Celek can be valuable to your team in FanSided First and foremost, we cannot expect similar statistics to ever again for Brent Celek.
That was a banner year for the tight end out of Cincinnati and is highly unlikely to ever happen again. But again, we are not expecting the same tight end that caught 10 passes and two touchdowns in the NFC Championship game. Where Brent Celek really showed his value to the Eagles was in the running game. Pro Football Focus ranked Brent Celek highly as a both a pass-blocking and run-blocking tight end. Eagles head coach Chip Kelly showed Celek with praise throughout the season as a blocker.
Celek's toughness has become legendary. He played in of a possible games, including the playoffs, over his year career, and if it weren't for a short week, he might have played in a Thursday night game despite having suffered a concussion the previous Sunday.
Many cringe at the thought of what players put their bodies through and believe that mentality shouldn't be celebrated. But even football's staunchest critics would have to admire Celek's professionalism and his devotion to his craft.
As of November , Celek had played through the following injuries: a torn right labrum , a left high ankle sprain , torn thumb ligaments , a deep hip bruise , a torn medial collateral ligament in his right knee , a torn right biceps , a double sports hernia , and a torn posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee He made a few appearances on injury lists with neck and rib ailments, but the extent of the injuries was unknown. Knowing Celek, they were probably significant.
He was relatively injury-free in , which could explain why he wants to keep chugging along. Celek had only one goal growing up in Cincinnati, and that was to play in the NFL. He went at it with steely-eyed determination.
In sixth grade, he dislocated an elbow in a game, popped it back in himself and kept playing. In college, he played with a dislocated shoulder. He said last year that he would wait until after the season to make a decision on his future. The year-old Celek, who has one year left on his contract, also said that he expects to remain with the Eagles.
But with Trey Burton expected to leave in free agency, the team may not want to risk losing two of its three top tight ends. Most likely, something will be worked out to benefit both sides.
The Eagles don't want to lose one of their hardest workers and respected leaders. And Celek would prefer to stay and end his career in Philadelphia.
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