RICHMOND – Defensive ends Stephen Bowen and Jason Hatcher, wide receiver Leonard Hankerson and offensive lineman Maurice Hurt will all begin training camp with the Washington Redskins on the physically-unable-to-perform list, coach Jay Gruden said Wednesday.
Gruden said he did not want to estimate when any of the players would be able to return, though he conceded that Hatcher, who underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee on June 19, should be the first one to return.
Hatcher, who signed a four-year, $27.5 million contract with the Redskins in March, was expected to need four to six weeks to recover from the procedure. He said in June, at the end of the Redskins’ offseason workouts, that his soreness was the accumulation of several old injuries.
Bowen, whom Hatcher is expected to replace as the starting right defensive end, is still recovering after undergoing microfracture surgery to repair the cartilage in his right knee in December.
Hankerson tore the ACL and LCL in his left knee in the Redskins’ loss at Philadelphia on Nov. 17, and he wasn’t expected to be healthy for the start of training camp.
Hurt will enter training camp on the PUP list for the second consecutive season because he is out of shape. He also missed all of 2013 after he showed up to training camp out of shape last year.
“He came in a little bit out of shape and we’ll just go from there,” Gruden said. “We’ll make sure we monitor his condition moving forward.”
Cornerbacks Tracy Porter and Richard Crawford have been fully cleared and will begin training camp with no restrictions. Porter, who signed a two-year, $6 million contract in March, had surgery to repair a torn the labrum in one of his shoulders before offseason workouts began, while Crawford tore the ACL and LCL in the Redskins’ preseason victory over Buffalo on Aug. 24.
• Zac Boyer can be reached at zboyer@washingtontimes.com.
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