As we speak marked the eighth Philadelphia Eagles coaching camp observe forward of the 2025 NFL season. The padded session lasted for about one hour and 40 minutes. Right here’s what I noticed on the NovaCare Complicated.
EAGLES PRACTICE NOTES
JALEN HURTS UPDATE: Hurts was stable but unspectacular. He hit a crossing DeVonta Smith in stride for a pleasant acquire. He had one other good ball to Dallas Goedert. Hurts had an opportunity to make the play of the day by hitting Jahan Dotson for a deep landing. The huge receiver was comfortably open for an over-the-shoulder catch ultimately zone however Hurts overthrew him. The quarterback wasn’t helped by the wind being at his again; the upright streamers and an enormous flag close by have been blowing in the identical route the ball was thrown. Nonetheless ready to see one other sizzling stretch from Hurts like he had early in camp.
EAGLES INJURY REPORT: Bunch of recent updates.
DID NOT PRACTICE
LB Zack Baun (again contusion)WR A.J. Brown (hamstring)S Lewis Cine (hamstring)RB Montrell Johnson Jr. (hamstring)WR Terrace Marshall Jr. (knee)CB Mac McWilliams (quad)LB Ben VanSumeren (ankle)
Baun has missed 4 straight practices.
Marshall has missed three straight practices.
McWilliams and BVS have missed two straight practices.
Brown is a brand new addition to the damage report. Clearly an enormous one to observe. UPDATE: Right here’s some encouraging perception.
Cine and Johnson Jr. are additionally newly injured.
LIMITED PARTICIPATION
LB Jihaad Campbell (shoulder)LS Charley Hughlett (neck)TE E.J. Jenkins (hamstring)S Andrew Mukuba (shoulder)WR DeVonta Smith (again tightness)LB Nolan Smith (concussion)
DeVonta took half in some staff drills in his first day again after lacking 4 practices.
Nolan was restricted to place drills. He’s ramping up after lacking three practices.
Campbell doesn’t look like restricted regardless of being listed as such.
Mukuba was restricted for the second observe in a row. Nonetheless not taking part in staff drills.
Hughlett is a brand new addition. One thing to regulate forward of the primary preseason sport on Thursday. UPDATE: The Eagles are reportedly bringing in a brand new lengthy snapper.
Jenkins was upgraded to restricted after lacking the final two practices.
OTHER INJURY NEWS
Jalen Carter (shoulder), Landon Dickerson (ribs), and Cam Jurgens (again) have been faraway from the damage report.
POSITION BATTLE UPDATE — CORNERBACK: Adoree’ Jackson was first up with the first-team protection on Sunday. That makes 5 days when Jackson has been up first and three days for Ringo. Jackson had good protection on DeVonta Smith in 7-on-7 to drive Hurts off that learn. Jackson would’ve allowed a deep landing to Dotson if not for a Hurts overthrow. Ringo broke up a Hurts move to Goedert.
Is Eli Ricks a darkish horse candidate to win the beginning cornerback job? He hasn’t been getting common first-team reps with Jackson and Ringo splitting these. However the third-year defender’s having a pleasant summer time. There’s usually speak about how participant improvement isn’t linear. On this case, Ricks confirmed some promise as an undrafted rookie in 2023 earlier than underwhelming in 2024. Possibly he’s able to rebound in Yr 3. Listed below are the performs I wrote down Ricks’ identify for on Sunday: a move breakup on a Tanner McKee throw to Nick Muse in 7-on-7, tight protection on Dotson the place he arguably ran the route higher than the receiver in 11-on-11, and three extra move breakups on McKee throws to Elijah Cooks. The final two occurred in an end-of-game scenario the place the offense needed to rating with little or no time left and no timeouts to work with. A leaping Ricks first broke up a fade move to Cooks. Then he denied the move from a scrambling McKee to Cooks, who was attempting to uncover for a tiptoe seize alongside the correct sideline ultimately zone. Cooks has most of the time been a troublesome cowl for Eagles defensive backs this summer time however Ricks was in a position to get the higher of him on Sunday. Ricks did have a rep the place he received beat deep to permit a catch to Darius Cooper.
Talking of Darius Cooper, he’s intriguing. Did you notice that he led all NCAA huge receivers at any stage (Division I FBS, Division I FBS, Division II, Division III) in receiving yards at Tarleton State final yr? He had 1,449, which is 67 greater than second-place Nick Nash (who’s 26 years outdated) and 133 greater than third-place Tetairoa McMillan (who was the No. 8 decide within the 2025 NFL Draft). Cooper performed two extra video games than these gamers … however he noticed 46 fewer targets than Nash and 5 fewer than McMillan. Cooper solely ranked tied for the fifteenth most targets with 125 (8.9 per sport). Cooper’s manufacturing wasn’t nearly pure quantity; he was fairly environment friendly with 19.1 yards per reception and 14 touchdowns. Solely two out of 744 qualifying gamers ranked above him in yards per route run. On Sunday, Cooper beat Ricks to make an over-the-shoulder catch down the correct sideline. He made another catches and in addition confirmed some juice on a kick return. Because it at the moment stands, I don’t suppose Cooper makes the roster. But it surely’ll be attention-grabbing to look at him within the preseason. He’s no less than carried out sufficient to warrant a observe squad spot.
Jihaad Campbell stood out for being in place to bump Will Shipley instantly after a brief reception. The rookie additionally received his arms on a ball to interrupt up a dump off to Ainias Smith.
With feel-good personalities like Brandon Graham and Darius Slay gone, the Eagles will look to rising leaders to carry some levity to the locker room (helps to interrupt up the monotony of the each day grind). Jordan Mailata and Jordan Davis are high candidates on this regard. There was a second throughout Sunday’s observe the place Hurts took a bump as a runner (he remained upright). It was a defender who touched him, nonetheless. It was Goedert, who had been pushed by Davis. After the play, Mailata ran as much as Davis and pretended to be mad at him and throw punches at him. Davis performed into the enjoyable by performing like he was really getting hit. Davis was additionally messing round throughout Jalen Carter’s media availability after observe:
Stated it on Friday and I’ll say it once more: Saquon Barkley appears actually good. If there’s going to be a participant who defies historic precedent and runs for two,000 yards once more, I wouldn’t rely him out. He appears primed for one more huge yr.
Two younger gamers who’ve stood out in OL vs. DL 1-on-1 drills this summer time: rookie sort out Myles Hinton and second-year defensive sort out Gabe Corridor. Hinton will make the roster. Corridor has an opportunity.
Johnny Wilson has disenchanted as a pass-catcher however you possibly can see the worth he has a big-bodied blocker. He helped to seal off Adoree’ Jackson a working play to the sting.
Andre’ Sam broke up a McKee throw to Kylen Granson ultimately zone. The quarterback tried to suit it in a decent window. The tight finish had an opportunity at making a very good catch however the Eagles’ second-year security gained out.
Tristin McCollum knocked down a McKee throw to Granson alongside the correct sideline. Later, McCollum dropped what would’ve been a game-winning interception (on this simulated scenario) thrown proper at him by Dorian Thompson-Robinson.
McKee had a number of passes get knocked down however he additionally had some good completions as effectively. Equivalent to one to a tightly lined Nick Muse on a curl route. Or later in observe when he hit Granson alongside the correct sideline to permit the tight finish to get out of bounds and the offense to arrange in goal-to-go.
Utilizing a one-handed strike, Josh Uche pancaked second-team left sort out Kendall Lamm to notch a “sack.” Fairly spectacular. Later, Uche had a nasty offside penalty.
ShunDerrick Powell had one other long term. We’ll see if these flashes carry over to preseason soccer.
DTR finally led the third-team offense to a landing by hitting Harrison Bryant in the course of the top zone. The 2-point attempt to tie the sport was unsuccessful, nonetheless, with him throwing a decide to a leaping Dallas Gant to finish observe.
Kyle McCord didn’t get many, if any, 11-on-11 reps. However we’ll in all probability see lots of him within the preseason video games.
First-team kickoff protection unit throughout particular groups drills (from left to proper): Cooper DeJean, Will Shipley, Ochaun Mathis, Sydney Brown, Tristin McCollum, Kyle Granson, Patrick Johnson, Andre’ Sam, Avery Williams, and Kelee Ringo. After which Jake Elliott doing the kicking.
Kick returner pairings, so as: Darius Cooper and Keilan Robinson, Taylor Morin and ShunDerrick Powell, Giles Jackson and Keilan Robinson, Taylor Morin and Darius Cooper. The percentages are towards these any of those gamers making the roster.
UP NEXT: The Eagles are again at observe on Monday morning beginning at 10:00 AM Jap. Yow will discover extra of the Eagles’ coaching camp schedule by clicking right here.
