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Getty Images Former Eagles defensive back Zac Henderson died overnight at his home in Oklahoma City, Berry Tramel of The Oklahoman reports. Henderson was 64. Henderson is the namesake of Bengals head coach Zac Taylor, whose father, Sherwood, played in the secondary with Henderson at Oklahoma...

Getty Images For a number of veterans still on the free agent market, the draft will determine their future, as teams wait to see if they can fill in blanks on the depth chart with young players. But for former Broncos quarterback Joe Flacco, the ability to take a physical for a team will...

Getty Images The Eagles and owner Jeffrey Lurie are putting another $1 million in donations in the hands of local groups helping with the COVID-19 outbreak. The team announced another round of donations to a variety of groups through the city of Philadelphia, to provide assistance to...

Getty Images The Jaguars are indeed looking to trade running back Leonard Fournette, PFT has confirmed. So will the Jaguars find someone to take Fournette, the fourth overall pick in the 2017 draft (a/k/a the guy taken four spots before Christian McCaffrey, six before Patrick Mahomes, and seven...

Getty Images During this week’s NFL draft, the league will be hosting what it calls a “Draft-A-Thon” to raise money for six organizations that are helping people hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. The league’s 32 coaches and general managers are pitching in. Peter King writes in Football Morning...

Getty Images With the virtual draft now a week away, the Eagles are trying to cover all their bases. They will have many mock drafts by the start of the first round, and the NFL will have a run-through, too, to check the technology. “We’ll have fun making some mock trades,” Eagles General...

Getty Images The pre-draft process has been turned upside down, due to the pandemic. For prospects, team visits and private workouts have yielded to video chats with multiple teams, on multiple occasions. Teams can speak to an unlimited number of prospects, up to three times per week for an...

Getty Images The Eagles can’t work out and do football things together at the moment, but they found something more important to do yesterday. Via Tim McManus of ESPN.com, more than 70 Eagles employees and families, including coach Doug Pederson and his wife, gave blood at an American Red...

Getty Images It’s unknown whether the Eagles would ever want to sign quarterback Joe Flacco. But it is clear that Flacco hasn’t ruled out the possibility. Via Mike Kaye of NJ.com, Flacco recently was asked whether he’d be interested in playing for the Eagles. Said Flacco in response: “I grew...

Getty Images One of the accepted bits of conventional wisdom about the 2020 NFL Draft is how deep it is at wide receiver. Another is how desperately the Eagles happen to need wide receiver help. But Eagles General Manager Howie Roseman tried to avoid the topic during his pre-draft press...

Getty Images Jason Kelce just wanted to clear things up. He’s not retiring, unless you’re talking about arm wrestling. The Eagles center wrote on Instagram that he’s definitely going to continue to play football, whenever that happens to be. After making a joke about retiring from arm...

Getty Images At a time when some football players are sending bad messages about how to behave during a pandemic, Saints defensive back Malcolm Jenkins is sending an important message to the African-American community, which has been hit disproportionately hard by the coronavirus. “This...

Getty Images Ten years ago on Easter (not 10 years to the day because Easter was on April 4 that year), a quiet news day quickly got a lot louder when the Eagles traded quarterback Donovan McNabb. Making the move even more surprising was the fact that a division rival did the deal, with...

Getty Images Pete Retzlaff, a member of the Eagles’ Hall of Fame, died of natural causes in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday, the team announced. Retzlaff was 88. Retzlaff, who was a tight end, is one of only nine players in Eagles’ team history to have his number retired. Retzlaff wore 44...

Getty Images The Eagles thought enough of cornerback Sidney Jones in 2017 that they drafted him in the second round despite a torn Achilles, but his first three years with the team haven’t provided much return on that investment. Jones has missed time with other injuries and spent time on the...

Getty Images Yet another governor has cast doubt over football season starting on time, another one who presides over multiple teams. Via Jacob Klinger of Pennlive.com, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf was the latest to hedge, citing public safety as a priority during the coronavirus outbreak. “I...

Getty Images Our day-by-day, division-by-division draft previews include day-by-day drafts of the best players from each division. Earlier this week, we looked at the best teams of the NFC East. Simms and I plucked three each, one at a time, from the quartet of franchises that made up the...

Getty Images Last week, Eagles General Manager Howie Roseman referred to wide receiver Alshon Jeffery as the “elephant in the room,” a nod toward his injury, bad contract, and reported desire to be traded. As it turns out, Roseman has been trying to move that elephant for some time. According...

Getty Images A member of the Eagles’ 1960 NFL Champions has died. The team announced the death of Timmy Brown. Brown, who was 82, played running back and returned kicks for the Eagles from 1960 until 1967. Brown ran 850 times for 3,703 yards, caught 231 passes for 3,346 yards and scored 55...

Getty Images Cornerback Ronald Darby signed a one-year deal with the Eagles in 2019 in hopes of proving he could make a full recovery from a torn ACL and land a longer deal this offseason. Darby returned to the lineup, but hamstring and hip flexor injuries caused him to miss five games. That...