Edmonton Eskimos lose JC Sherritt to injury for rest of 2017 CFL season
Make it two starting linebackers out for the season for the Edmonton Eskimos.
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Make it two starting linebackers out for the season for the Edmonton Eskimos.
JC Sherritt, the Esks’ defensive captain and starter at middle linebacker, is finished for 2017 after rupturing the Achilles tendon in his left leg during the season-opening Edmonton win over the host B.C. Lions on Saturday. The team lost Cory Greenwood, a Canadian who was pegged to start at WIL linebacker alongside Sherritt, early in the Canadian Football League team’s training camp with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Greenwood, a former Toronto Argonaut, had signed with the Eskimos in the off-season.
Sherritt, the CFL’s most outstanding defensive player in 2012 in his seventh year with the team, came up lame on a second-quarter play that didn’t see any contact on the 29-year-old. He was carted to the dressing room and returned to the sidelines in the third quarter on crutches. Korey Jones finished the game in Sherritt’s spot.
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