Eagles Training Camp Practice Notes: Quinyon Mitchell looks really good entering Year 2

Eagles Training Camp Practice Notes: Quinyon Mitchell looks really good entering Year 2
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Observations from the NovaCare Complex.

Today marked the fourth Philadelphia Eagles training camp practice ahead of the 2025 NFL season. The partially padded (shoulder pads and shorts) session lasted for about an hour and 40 minutes. Here’s what I observed at the NovaCare Complex.

EAGLES PRACTICE NOTES

  • JALEN HURTS UPDATE: Hurts looked pretty sharp through the two media-attended OTA practices, one minicamp practice, and first two days of training camp. He’s since cooled off. Hurts followed up Saturday’s struggles with some more mistakes on Monday. He was guilty of holding onto the ball for too long and taking some “sacks.” One of his passes got knocked down by Quinyon Mitchell and another by Jeremiah Trotter Jr. A downfield attempt to A.J. Brown was underthrown (second straight practice where that’s happened) and picked off by Quinyon Mitchell. Guessing Hurts might throw more than one interception in all of training camp like he did last year. And that’s hardly the end of the world. On the positive side, Hurts did have some nice completions to Dallas Goedert.

  • EAGLES INJURY REPORT: DeVonta Smith (back tightness), Andrew Mukuba (shoulder), Smael Mondon Jr. (illness), and Danny Gray (finger) did not practice. Jalen Carter (shoulder), Jihaad Campbell (shoulder), Cam Jurgens (back), and Kenyon Green (knee) were listed as limited. Carter was a participant in practice for the first time this summer, though he didn’t take part in team drills. Adoree’ Jackson seemed to suffer a finger injury later in practice. Patrick Johnson also appeared to be shaken up later in practice. Cooper DeJean came up a little gimpy after a 1-on-1 rep early in the day but he was able to finish practice.

  • POSITION BATTLE UPDATE — CORNERBACK: For the third practice in a row, Adoree’ Jackson was the first first-team right cornerback. It felt like he took the majority of reps there until later in practice, when Kelee Ringo was back with the starters. Ringo’s reemergence also coincided with Jackson seemingly suffering a finger injury. Though it’s early and things can change, the feeling here is that the veteran Jackson has been better than Ringo thus far. Jackson notably broke up a contested catch attempt by Terrace Marshall, who didn’t help himself by bobbling the ball (this is the play where Jackson got hurt). Ringo did have good coverage on Marshall to prevent a catch in 1-on-1. If Jackson has to miss time, that development obviously works in Ringo’s favor.

  • While we’re on the subject of cornerbacks, we should note that Quinyon Mitchell (who has mostly played LCB but also saw some RCB reps today) has had an excellent training camp. Mitchell is the only Eagles defensive back who’s had a chance of slowing down A.J. Brown. Q did lose to A.J. twice in one-on-one reps but 1) that’s a drill that heavily favors receivers and 2) Mitchell made A.J. make tough catches. And, as previously noted, Mitchell knocked down a Hurts pass in team drills and picked off another....