Taylor, whose 133 consecutive starts rank seventh among active players, hasn't missed a game since Week 15 of 1999 when he was with Miami. But he didn't make it to Week 4 with the Redskins, who acquired him from the Dolphins hours after left end Phillip Daniels suffered a season-ending knee injury on July 20, the first day of training camp.

It's unclear if the 34-year-old Taylor, the active sacks leader with 118, will be back in time for another NFC road test at the Philadelphia Eagles on Oct. 5.

"When (Jason) got kicked, some blood started pooling up in that muscle and started creating pressure," Zorn said. "He played the rest of the game with no problem (Taylor had all three of his tipped passes in the second half). Later on that night, it started getting more sore and the symptoms continued to get more painful. There's a nerve in there that started getting pinched off a little bit and he started feeling a little bit deadened in his ankle and called the doctors. They looked at it and took him to the hospital."

Linebacker Khary Campbell missed the first two games of the season with a similar condition in his thigh and he didn't have surgery, instead having blood removed with a needle.

"It's called compartmental syndrome," Zorn said. "They went in and cut open that portion where the blood was pooling and released that pressure. As soon as it released, that muscle went back down to normal. They closed it back up and he's going to be fine."

Expect fifth-year Redskin Demetric Evans to fill in while Taylor is sidelined. Erasmus James, who was inactive against the Cardinals, and Chris Wilson, are Washington's other reserve ends.

"It's definitely a setback (for the defense)," Evans said. "If I know I'm going to be the guy on Wednesday, I'll definitely do some things differently. As a backup, you kind of watch the game from the sideline and when you go in, you know how they'll attack you. But once you're a starter, you're in there from play one and they'll probably attack you differently."