Smith is out of Wednesday's practice, and the Eagles' receiving room keeps getting smaller

Jalen Hurts cleared concussion protocol, which was the good news Wednesday. The bad news arrived at roughly the same time: DeVonta Smith did not practice, listed as Questionable with an injury that the team has not detailed. Hollywood Brown is also Questionable. That is the top two receivers on the depth chart — Smith and Brown — both uncertain for this week, with Hurts just now back in the building in a full capacity.

Smith has been the load-bearing wall of this passing game since A.J. Brown was traded away. Goedert is gone. The tight end situation has been a patchwork project for weeks now. If Smith misses time, the names behind him on the receiver depth chart — Britain Covey, Xavier Gipson, Dontayvion Wicks — are not players built to carry a passing offense. They are role players asked to fill a much larger role.

Hurts being cleared matters. It matters a lot, actually — this offense does not function without him, and the concussion scare against Chicago was the kind of moment that reminds you how thin the margin already is. But clearing protocol and having a functional receiving corps are two different problems, and right now Philadelphia only has one of them resolved.