Jack Ikegwuonu News

The Eagles have worked out cornerbacks Jamar Love and Chris Roberson , according to Adam Caplan of scout.com. The Birds currently have five cornerbacks on their roster: Asante Samuel , Sheldon Brown , Macho Harris, Dimitri Patterson and Geoffrey Pope .

The Eagles are getting ready to host the Redskins Sunday afternoon, looking to improve their record to 7-4. In the first meeting between the two teams, the Eagles left Washington with a 27-17 victory in Week 7. Since then, the Redskins have had more key players drop because of injury, further pushing the advantage in the Eagles favor.

The way Marty Mornhinweg sees it, sacks are more of a stat against a quarterback than an offensive line.

The Philadelphia Eagles have announced they have released cornerback and former fourth-round draft pick Jack Ikegwuonu, a former star for the Wisconsin Badgers and the Madison Memorial Spartans.

During an interview last month after coaching his son in a flag Football game, former Eagles right tackle Jon Runyan made it clear he still wanted to play, and he knew what had to happen to make that possible.

Late bloomer Winston Justice, for overcoming a four-year struggle, was rewarded Tuesday with a contract extension that will prevent the Eagles ' starting right tackle from becoming an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season.

The Eagles signed cornerback Geoffrey Pope to their 53-man roster and released Jack Ikegwuonu.

WHEN DONOVAN McNABB was asked Sunday about the impact of losing Brian Westbrook again, the quarterback talked about the importance of veteran leadership.

Reno Mahe won't be home for Thanksgiving this year. While others are eating turkey and watching football, he'll be in American Samoa, helping victims of the earthquake and tsunami that hit the island in late September.

Jason Peters is out for today's Eagles-Chargers game. Todd Herremans will replace Peters at left tackle, Nick Cole will slide over from right guard to left guard and Stacy Andrews will get the start at right guard.

IF YOU'VE BEEN following the frustrating Brian Westbrook saga this season, you'll recall that Westbrook was just starting to look like Westbrook again when his head collided with London Fletcher's knee, midway through the first quarter at Washington, back on Oct.

The four-game suspension of Joselio Hanson and season-ending injury to Ellis Hobbs leave the Eagles in a tough position at cornerback.

With cornerback Ellis Hobbs out for the season and now cornerback Joselio Hanson suspended for four games for violating an NFL policy on performance enhancing substances, the Eagles as expectedsigned cornerback Jack Ikegwuonu from the practice squad to their 53-man roster and signed cornerback Stoney Woodson to the practice squad.

Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Joselio Hanson was suspended four games by the NFL on Wednesday for violating the league's drug policy.

Good thing it's a long 16-game season, because all the roster trauma is apparently front-loaded...The Eagles unexpectedly announced the release of TE Tony Curtis, whom it was assumed had won the back-up job for 2009, when TE Alex Smith suddenly became available from the New England Patriots.

The dream ended Saturday for more than a dozen potential Birds but a few of those guys will still be getting a paycheck from the team as a member of the practice squad.

Posted by ESPN.com's Matt Mosley The Eagles filled out their eight-man practice squad by adding four players Monday: Cornerback Jack Ikegwuonu , S Reshard Langford , LB Jeremy Leman and FB Marcus Mailei .

Early in the day, Michael Vick learned he'll be eligible to play football the third week of the season.

Quintin Demps stood at his locker Monday afternoon and said what everybody else has been thinking.

Shawn Andrews hasn't played in a game in almost a year, hasn't played at tackle since college, and hasn't practiced much this preseason.