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PFF Wide Receiver Rankings: Top 32 ahead of the 2025 NFL season - PFF

1. A.J. BROWN, PHILADELPHIA EAGLES. Brown dominates defensive backs across the board, but his success against single coverage is especially notable. He earned the highest receiving grade versus single coverage in 2024 (96.6) and leads the league in that category over the past three seasons (2022–24) with a 97.0 grade. He can win in every way, against any defense.

Eagles Question of the Day: What are you going to do to pass the time until training camp begins? - BGN

Now that NFL minicamps are wrapped up, the league is essentially going dark until training camps begin late next month. It’s time for some R&R. Philadelphia Eagles players and coaches don’t report back until the NovaCare Complex until July 22. Today’s Question of the Day asks: what are you going to do to pass the time until then?

Eagles mailbag: Create an NFL starting 22, choosing no more than one player per team - PhillyVoice

Question from @eagsfan: What’s the most likely position the Eagles make a trade for either preseason or at the trade deadline? During his OTA press conference, Vic Fangio said of Cooper DeJean, “We’d like to keep him at nickel, and then in our base package, we’ll find a spot for him either at corner or safety.” That he’s considering putting DeJean at safety — even if only for like 20 percent of the snaps in the Eagles’ “base” defense — tells me that he doesn’t yet know if he loves whoever will start at safety opposite Reed Blankenship. So, short-term, I’d say safety. And then I think that edge rusher is a possibility, depending on what they see from Azeez Ojulari and Josh Uche in training camp.

The 5 biggest concerns about Eagles entering 2025 season - NBCSP

2. Not enough pass rush. The Eagles’ defensive line was dominant in the Super Bowl and Patrick Mahomes is probably still having nightmares about it after he was sacked six times for the first time in his NFL career. And if you just watched that game, you would probably think the Eagles’ pass rush was dominant throughout 2024. But that wasn’t really the case. Sure, the Eagles had the best defense in football but the strength of Vic Fangio’s side of the football last season was the back seven. The Eagles’ defensive line was good but not overly dominant. The Eagles finished the 2024 regular season with 41 sacks (t-13th) and a pressure rate of 31.1% (28th). A few key players from the defensive line (Josh Sweat, Milton Williams and Brandon Graham) are all gone and the Eagles are relying on some projection in 2025. There’s a chance all of those projections hit and this unit is very good but that might be a tad unrealistic. At defensive tackle, the Eagles know they can rely on Jalen Carter, who was fantastic last season and is already one of the best interior defensive linemen in the NFL. But after losing Williams, the Eagles have to hope that Moro Ojomo, Jordan Davis and rookie Ty Robinson are able to be strong in that rotation. Ojomo has shown a ton of promise but Williams is leaving big shoes to fill. Davis has been a solid run-stuffer but still hasn’t realized his potential as a pass rusher. And Robinson is an intriguing prospect but is a fourth-round rookie.

Jalen Carter’s foundation helps provide local ‘grandfamilies’ access to nutritious food: ‘It means a whole lot that he’s giving back’ - Inquirer

Jalen Carter walked into Hope Partnership for Education, a middle school in North Philadelphia, on Thursday afternoon and experienced a wave of nostalgia. Growing up in Apopka, Fla., Carter would frequent his mother’s daycare. Helping his mother, Tonique Brown, with the children inspired him to give back to the next generation through his eponymous foundation as he ascended to NFL success as a defensive tackle for the Eagles. On Thursday, the 24-year-old Carter partnered with Acme and Connectedly, a Philly-based nonprofit that supports seniors, to host a kickoff event for Connectedly’s Philly Families Eat Smart summer program at the middle school. The six-week program, with support from Carter’s foundation, is designed for grandparents raising their grandchildren.

Rookie Q&A: 3 questions with Myles Hinton - PE.com

3. What is the impact of your father’s career on your journey? Hinton: “It has definitely had an influence. I’m proud of my dad. I’ve really enjoyed being his son. Seeing stuff about him being great makes me want to be great as well. It is really inspiring and he has encouraged me to do my best. That’s all anybody can ask: Be as prepared as you can be and do the best job you can do. The coach here, Jeff Stoutland, is the same way. He has his reputation and it is well-deserved. I’m watching film of this offensive line and they are moving people off the ball at a fast rate of speed. It’s pretty amazing to watch. I want to be part of that. I want to be part of that five (starters). I’m here around the best of the best in every way and that is an incredible thing. You come to work and you’re going to be pushed and you’re going to push yourself and there is no telling where this is going to take me. I could not have landed in a better place.”

Washington Commanders beef up on defensive line - ESPN

Of the top 10 teams against the run last season, nine made the postseason. Of the bottom 10, only Washington reached the playoffs. It’s a hard life to sustain as only four teams in the past three years made the postseason while finishing bottom 10. Also, as one member of the organization said, so much of that issue stemmed from being able to stop Saquon Barkley. In three games vs. Washington, he ran for a combined 414 yards and seven touchdowns, averaging 5.9 yards per carry. The Eagles topped 200 yards rushing each time. “We didn’t play the run well enough, and I thought we would have,” Washington defensive coordinator Joe Whitt Jr. said. “Some of the things we’re doing with the front for the run game we have changed and some we have adjusted.”

2024 REWIND: Week 11 - Commanders give up 20 points in 4th quarter to lose to Eagles 26-18 - Hogs Haven

Disaster strikes for the Commanders: Jayden Daniels opened the drive with an interception — his 3rd of the season — by Reed Blankenship at Washington’s 46-yard line. For all practical purposes, the game was over with this play, though 04:50 remained on the clock. Small chance had turned into no chance. Dan Quinn started burning time outs and hoping for a defensive stop, but the ending feels inevitable at this point.

3 reasons the Cowboys won’t win the NFC East - Blogging The Boys

A brutal final stretch on the schedule: November brings a really tough stretch on the Cowboys’ schedule. They host the Eagles and Chiefs - the two teams to reach the Super Bowl last year - over a span of four days. That is then followed up with a road trip to Detroit, home games against the Vikings and Chargers, and then a road trip to face the Commanders. That’s six games against playoff teams from a year ago, three of whom reached their conference’s championship game, all towards the end of the season. Unless one of those teams goes through a sharp regression this year, it’s likely that Dallas will be the underdog for all six of those games. Given how much the months of November and December can shape the playoff race, drawing these six opponents in a row at this time of year can be a death knell for not only the Cowboys’ hopes in the NFC East, but to make the playoffs at all.

Giants minicamp preview: About those spring narratives - Big Blue View

Malik Nabers’ toe — to worry or not to worry? The Giants’ star wide receiver has not done anything more than walk-through periods this spring due to a toe issue. Is this something to worry about? I don’t think so ... yet. The Giants have said this is an injury Nabers has had to manage since college. I do admit to wondering if something happened earlier in Nabers’ offseason training to exacerbate the issue.

Which NFL players will improve in 2025? C.J. Stroud, Deebo Samuel among guaranteed risers - NFL.com

Milton Williams was my colleague Gregg Rosenthal’s top free agent this offseason, which speaks to Williams’ impact given he played fewer than 50 percent of Philadelphia’s defensive snaps in each of his four seasons with the team. In a backup role behind first-round draft picks Jordan Davis and Jalen Carter, Williams totaled a career-high five sacks and 35 QB pressures in 2024 (both third on the team). His 12.9 percent QB pressure rate was highest among NFL defensive tackles, per Next Gen Stats. He saved his best performance for last with two sacks in the Eagles’ Super Bowl LIX victory. It can be risky paying part-time players big-time money like the Patriots did this offseason with Williams (four-year, $104 million deal). He will be tasked with turning around a defense that ranked 22nd in yards and points allowed in 2024. The Patriots signed a slew of defensive veterans, including Harold Landry, Robert Spillane and Carlton Davis III, for new head coach Mike Vrabel to deploy, and it’s clear early on that Vrabel is looking for Williams to set the tone in his revamped D-line. He brings the experience to a front that features some young but talented disruptors in now healthy Christian Barmore and third-year defensive end Keion White, who has already drawn praise from Williams. The 26-year-old defensive tackle is positioned to build on his 2024 breakout season.

Why are so many 2025 NFL Draft picks still unsigned? - SB Nation

2025 second-round picks are unsigned across the NFL. On May 8th, the Houston Texans inked their second-round pick, Jayden Higgins, to a typical four-year deal at the slotted 34th overall pick compensation rate. Nothing about that was weird. But the contract was the first fully guaranteed contract for a second-round player in NFL history. To that point, only first-round players signed fully guaranteed contracts. At slot 33, the Cleveland Browns were in a bind. Picks 32 and 34 both had fully guaranteed contracts, so they would have to do it, too. The next day the Browns followed suit, signing Carson Swesinger to a fully guaranteed deal. That’s where it’s ended. No other second-rounders have signed as they all attempt to negotiate fully guaranteed deals, as well. The Seattle Seahawks and pick 35 Nick Emmanwori are the next domino in the conversation, but if another player further down the draft order gets a fully guaranteed deal, the floodgates could open. For a little context, last year’s 33rd overall pick, Keon Coleman of the Buffalo Bills, signed a four-year deal worth $10,074,258 per Spotrac, a website devoted to sports contracts. $9,640,505 of it was fully guaranteed. That’s a hair under 96% of it fully guaranteed, and just $433,753 in difference. The 64th overall selection, San Francisco’s Renardo Green, had just more than 52% of his contract fully guaranteed.