Both players had surgery on their right hip, and Jim McCrossin says it was successful.

His quote: “Both Robert Esche and Mike Rathje had very successful surgeries on their right hips today performed by Dr. Thomas Byrd in Baptist Hospital in Nashville, TN. Both are expected to be back and ready to go in approximately eight weeks. We are going to stay overnight in Nashville and we should be back home in Philadelphia sometime late afternoon [Saturday].”