Faulk may miss Eagles game

Marshall Faulk is a question mark for the third straight game as the St. Louis Rams prepare for Sunday's game at Philadelphia.

Faulk missed the Rams' 20-17 loss to the Redskins with a high sprain on his right ankle after not practicing all week, and a victory over the Bears Nov. 18. He's missed only nine games in eight-plus seasons, but coach Mike Martz said the ankle hasn't improved with rest.

"It does not look like it's progressed much in the last few days or the last week," Martz said Monday. "To say he would be ready this week would be a stretch.

"Who knows when we'll have him?"

Martz said Monday that every game is a one-game season for the Rams (5-6). But that won't factor into any urgency to get Faulk, the NFL's MVP in 2000, back in the lineup because Faulk would risk injury elsewhere if he tried to come back too soon.

-- AP