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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,...
