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Cody Parkey Out for Season, Eagles Sign Caleb Sturgis

UPDATE: On Tuesday morning, the Eagles placed Cody Parkey on injured reserve and announced the signing of Caleb Sturgis.


Pro Bowl kicker Cody Parkey’s season is over with a groin injury, a league source tells CSNPhilly.com on Monday.

Per the source, the Eagles plan to replace him on the active roster with former Dolphins kicker Caleb Sturgis, as Parkey lands on injured reserve, ending his second NFL season after just three games.

NFL Network's Ian Rapoport first reported the news.

Earlier in the day, head coach Chip Kelly said Parkey got hurt during pregame warmups and said the team brought in six kickers Monday for tryouts as a “precaution.”

Kelly said Parkey's injury was unrelated to the groin injury that sidelined him for much of the preseason.

Parkey, a Pro Bowl kicker as a rookie last year, struggled throughout the season. He missed an extra point and two field goals in the preseason and missed a 44-yarder in the Georgia Dome on opening day in a game the Eagles lost by two points to the Falcons.

Sturgis, 26, made 55 of 71 field goal attempts in his two years with the Dolphins, and his 77.5 percent accuracy over the two-year period from 2013 and 2014 ranked him 28th out of 31 qualifying kickers during that span — ahead of only Sebastian Janikowski, Garrett Hartley and Alex Henery.

However, he is 6 for 13 in his career from 50 yards or more.

Sturgis was the Dolphins’ fifth-round pick in 2013 after an All-American career at Florida. He’s been out of football since the Dolphins released him earlier this month.

Last year, Parkey set an NFL rookie scoring record with 150 points, most in Eagles history. He made 32 of 36 field goals, and tied former Eagles kicker Alex Henery as the third-most accurate rookie in NFL history.

In his career, Parkey is now 35 for 40 on field goal attempts for 87.5 percent. That makes him the third-most accurate kicker in NFL history among kickers with at least 40 attempts, behind only Dan Bailey of the Cowboys (90.1 percent) and Justin Tucker of the Ravens (89.7 percent).

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