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Getty Images Wednesday’s admission from Eagles coach Nick Sirianni regarding the playing of rock, paper, scissors with draft prospects inspired, eventually the topic for Thursday’s PFT Live draft. Simms and I ping-ponged on the question of the questions we’d pose to draft prospects. Simms’...

Getty Images The Eagles were second-guessed all season after the rookie wide receiver they drafted 21st overall, Jalen Reagor, proved himself vastly inferior to the wide receiver the Vikings drafted 22nd overall, Justin Jefferson. Jefferson himself has some thoughts on that. In an interview...

Getty Images The Eagles won the franchise’s first Super Bowl title to end the 2017 season. Things have unraveled since, with the team bottoming out with a 4-11-1 campaign in 2020. Although it cost coach Doug Pederson and quarterback Carson Wentz their jobs in Philadelphia, General Manager...

Getty Images There will be no alternative to onside kicks as a way for teams to maintain possession of the ball during the 2021 season. The Eagles proposed adopting a rule that would allow for teams to run one fourth-and-15 play from their own 25-yard line. Converting would allow them to...

Getty Images Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni is not ready to hand the starting quarterback job to Jalen Hurts just yet. Although Hurts is the presumptive starter after he started at the end of last season and Carson Wentz was traded to the Colts, Sirianni said he wants to see competition at...

Getty Images When the Dolphins first called the Eagles about trading up for the sixth overall pick in this year’s draft, Eagles General Manager Howie Roseman said the team had to figure out what the Dolphins were doing with the No. 3 pick. Once they learned that it was going to the 49ers and...

Getty Images NFL teams are not permitted to have in-person meetings with draft prospects this offseason and that’s led to some different approaches to getting to know about players who could become part of their organization. At a Wednesday press conference, Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni and...

Getty Images The Eagles could join the Dolphins in continuing to hopscotch in and around the top 10 of the draft. With news that the Dolphins, who have moved from No. 3 to No. 12 and then back to No. 6, could be potentially trading down again, the Eagles, who started at No. 6 then went to No...

Getty Images At a time when dysfunction in the coaching staff and front office has created headlines for the Eagles, the players say they’re on the same page as to the biggest football issue of the day. Eagles players issued on Sunday morning a statement indicating that none of them will show...

Getty Images With five years of coaching salary and a buyout that could land in the range of $10 million, former Eagles coach Doug Pederson may end up with enough money in the bank to not have to ever work again. And maybe he won’t, at least not in the NFL. Marcus Hayes of the Philadelphia...

Getty Images Plenty of players who make plenty of money in the NFL don’t spend it. They invest it. But that too can end up in the money decreasing in value if not disappearing. “You hear invest, invest, invest, but you really don’t know what that means,” Saints safety Malcolm Jenkins recently...

Getty Images The Eagles have proposed an onside kick alternative for a second consecutive offseason. This one appears headed where the last one ended up. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the fourth-and-15 alternative to the onside kick isn’t likely to pass. Instead, the Competition...

Getty Images When the Titans announced Jim Schwartz would be joining the team as its senior defensive assistant, head coach Mike Vrabel touted the experience and perspective Schwartz could provide to Tennessee’s staff. Schwartz, 54, was most recently the Eagles’ defensive coordinator. But he...

Getty Images The Eagles announced that former player Leroy Keyes died at his home in West Lafayette, Indiana, on Thursday. Keyes was 74. The Eagles made Keyes the third overall choice in 1969 out of Purdue, where he starred as a running back, defensive back and return specialist. He finished...

USA TODAY Sports When Jordan Howard returned to the Eagles late last season, he played alongside quarterback Jalen Hurts. Barring any changes, Hurts is expected to be Philadelphia’s starting QB again in 2021. Based on his experience with the young signal-caller, Howard thinks Hurts should be...

Getty Images Count free agent running back LeSean McCoy as one player who does not think Julian Edelman is heading to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Asked by Yahoo Sports if Edelman is a Hall of Famer, McCoy scoffed. “Hall of Famer? No, come on, man,” McCoy said. McCoy said Edelman’s strong...

Getty Images Things did not end well for Doug Pederson in Philadelphia, but there were happier days during his tenure as the Eagles head coach. Pederson took over after the Chip Kelly era came crashing to an end and led the Eagles to a Super Bowl title in his second season with the team...

Getty Images Running back Jordan Howard waited for the phone to ring when free agency started last month and then he waited some more because no one was racing to sign him for the 2021 season. The Eagles eventually offered Howard a job, but the quiet response that preceded their interest had...

Getty Images ESPN reporter Chris Mortensen is close with Jerry Jones, so Mortensen’s report that the Cowboys owner is “infatuated” with Florida tight end Kyle Pitts is no doubt accurate. It doesn’t mean the Cowboys will draft Pitts. First, it remains unlikely Pitts falls to 10th overall, so...

Getty Images Despite seismic changes in sports media, #Longreads persist. The question is whether anyone ever reads every word of any of them. I’ll wager that far fewer than 4,312 people read all 4,312 words of a three-byline opus from TheAthletic.com regarding the disintegration of the...