Tyler Eifert

[jowczarski]

Eifert won't start the year on the PUP - that means he has to miss six weeks. We'll know more on him after the 30th. No set backs, but ya, it's worth thinking at this point he'll miss the NYJ game. But let's say they stretch it to week 3. If the guy plays 13 games that ties his total from a year ago, second best in his career (to put that in context). Not ideal - the hope was always week 1 - but if he's truly 100 percent to come back the same week Tez does against Miami, that won't be the worst thing. I'm guessing he would have to practice fully on Sept. 7, exactly two weeks from this post, to play against the Jets..

In my walkthru today I talk about this very thing. He offers up an insight into the rehab process and states the obvious - if you have surgery, that part of the body is never again the same. So yes, he waited for it to heal. Trust me, if my ACLs could've healed on their own I would have waited on surgery too. I've come to understand Marvin gives (or has given) timelines in the past and has been off. It's interesting because he usually says he doesn't like to do it for that very reason, but it ends up happening. Honestly guys, no one knows when a player is "supposed" to or "will" come back for sure until they practice.

I would imagine the same parameters fall on Kroft, Dennard and Fisher re: practicing before playing.

As for Burfict, not sure. But he was in the building the other day. Remember, he's the only guy on the roster that Marvin came out to say wouldn't play a snap in the preseason and he did start on NFI. I would just sort of assume stuff like this will happen on the regular going forward and until he misses games it's not really worth worrying about. Marvin also said at the end of last week that he had pull Tez back from practice because he wasn't going to play the first three weeks, so this could be a way to do that, too.