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Getty Images The Eagles no longer have any players on their reserve/COVID-19 list. Offensive tackle Jordan Mailata, the last player on the list, was activated by the team today. A 2018 seventh-round pick who grew up in Australia and never played football, Mailata is a raw athlete whom the...

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports While it may be a slightly different way of going about playing football than he’s become accustomed to in his first nine years in the NFL, Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce has welcomed the return to the field for the start of training camp. According to Paul...

Getty Images Eagles coach Doug Pederson is back on the job. According to Les Bowen of the Philadelphia Daily News, Pederson has been cleared after his COVID-19 diagnosis, and has returned to work. He tested positive on Aug. 2, and continued to coach the team virtually while he was under...

Getty Images The Eagles are getting closer to full strength on the offensive line. The team announced that right tackle Lane Johnson had been activated from the reserve/COVID-19 list. Johnson was placed on the list on July 29, and he posted on social media that day that he felt “strong and...

Getty Images After the Lions traded cornerback Darius Slay to the Eagles this offseason, Slay made no secret of the fact that he would not miss being around Lions head coach Matt Patricia. Slay took issue with Patricia singling him out for criticism after a 2018 practice and with the coach...

Getty Images The Eagles were linked with free agent running backs at various times this offseason, but they haven’t added any of them to the roster. That leaves Miles Sanders on track for the No. 1 running back job, which he called a “blessing” during a video conference with reporters on...

Getty Images The deadline for NFL players to opt out of playing while receiving either a salary advance or stipend passed on Thursday, but there are other options for players who decide they don’t want to continue playing this year. Linebacker Jatavis Brown used one of them on Sunday. The...

Getty Images The Eagles got one of their early entrants to the reserve/COVID-19 list back on Sunday. The team announced that linebacker Nathan Gerry has been activated. He was placed on the list on July 29, the same day tackles Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata were placed on the list. Those...

Getty Images Eagles tight end Zach Ertz says that if Pennsylvania cancels high school sports for the rest of this year, as the governor is recommending, it’s going to be a big loss for kids like him. “I want kids to be healthy, first and foremost,” Ertz said, via the Philadelphia Inquirer...

Getty Images The Eagles added a familiar face to their pass-rush mix. According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, the Eagles have brought back defensive end Vinny Curry. Curry had five sacks last year in a reserve role, after coming back from his one-year sabbatical with the Buccaneers. The...

Getty Images Running back Devonta Freeman hasn’t found a job since being released by the Falcons earlier this year and he shared some of what he’s looking for in a new team on Thursday. Freeman made an appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio and said that he wants to “win so bad” with his next team...

Getty Images Doug Pederson made it to the NFL as an undrafted rookie out of Northeast Louisiana and spent more than a decade in the league as a backup quarterback. Now, as head coach of the Eagles, he has a say in deciding which undrafted rookies make the NFL. And he thinks this can be a good...

Getty Images The Eagles cut receiver Marcus Green on July 26. They are planning to re-sign him this week, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports. Green, 23, has never appeared in a regular-season game. The Falcons selected him in the sixth round of the 2019 draft. They waived him out of the...

Getty Images It’s been nearly a week since the NFL gave receiver Antonio Brown (partial) clarity regarding his status, with an eight-game suspension to be served in 2020 and, potentially, further punishment of an unresolved civil lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault and rape.. Since then, no...

Getty Images Penn State can put over 100,000 people in Beaver Stadium for football games. But unless circumstances change, they won’t put any in this fall. Penn State director of athletics Sandy Barbour wrote in a letter to season ticket holders that because of restrictions in place to limit...

Getty Images The same day Penn State announced its plans to go without fans this season, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf recommended that high school football shouldn’t be played in 2020. During a press conference Thursday regarding the state’s COVID-19 situation, Wolf was asked about guidance...

Getty Images Running back LeSean McCoy dropped hints about a desire to return to the Buccaneers throughout the offseason, but he won’t be in Philadelphia this year. McCoy signed with the Buccaneers and told reporters on a Tuesday conference call that he continued to monitor the Eagles and...

Getty Images The Eagles announced Tuesday they placed offensive guard Brandon Brooks on the physically unable to perform list and claimed tight end Caleb Wilson off waivers. Brooks, 30, is not expected to play this season. He tore his left Achilles tendon while rehabbing at the team facility...

Getty Images As the positive COVID-19 test for Eagles coach Doug Pederson shows, any NFL head coach can be rendered unavailable at a moment’s notice in 2020. So which teams are in the best shape to withstand the sudden availability of their head coach? That was the subject of Tuesday’s PFT...

Getty Images The NFL finally has given receiver Antonio Brown an answer, sort of, regarding his status. The question now becomes whether a team will sign him. Monday’s PFT Live included a draft of the teams that should consider signing Brown, one of the NFL’s best receivers of the past decade...