The Philadelphia Eagles officially wrapped up their spring offseason workout program last week. Now let’s take a look at the winners, losers, and I don’t knows that stood out from three media-attended practices (two days of voluntary OTAs and one mandatory minicamp session).
Disclaimer: These were non-contact drills (no pads) and three practices is a pretty small sample size. There’s still plenty of time for players to change their outlook — for better or worse — over the course of training camp and preseason games.
QB DORIAN THOMPSON-ROBINSON
DTR was the worst quarterback from the Eagles’ spring practices. It’s not like he was absolutely awful; it’s just that everyone else was clearly better … including his top competition for the QB3 role, rookie Kyle McCord. In fairness to DTR, it’s not like his mobility is maximized in a practice setting. He might be able to shine a bit more in preseason games. For now, though, it looks like he’s the odd man out in the quarterback room.
WR AVERY WILLIAMS
Speaking at the NFL owners meetings, Nick Sirianni went out of his way to talk about how he’s intrigued by Williams. As it currently stands, Williams projects to be the team’s top kick returner and top punt returner. But he missed spring practices due to an undisclosed injury. And Williams has had some durability issues in the past. Not the best first impression to make. He needs to get healthy for training camp.
WR JOHNNY WILSON
Wilson wasn’t present for the Eagles’ media-attended voluntary OTA practices. He wasn’t an active target when he showed up for the team’s mandatory minicamp. None of this means Wilson can’t make a leap from Year 1 to Year 2 but, so far, it’s not trending in the right direction. Especially when other wide receivers — like Terrace Marshall and Danny Gray — are outshining the 2024 draft pick.
S SYDNEY BROWN
The good news for Brown is that he’s the first man up at first-team safety next to Reed Blankenship. He has an opportunity to win that job. The bad news is that Brown had some struggles in coverage during spring practices. He’s also splitting his first-team reps with rookie Andrew Mukuba and others. I think Eagles fans seem to be higher on Brown than Vic Fangio is.
S LEWIS CINE
There’s intrigue to be had with Cine considering he’s a former first-round pick who went to Georgia. But he was behind at least five other safeties — including 2024 undrafted signing Andre’ Sam — in spring practices.
RB SHUNDERRICK POWELL
Not good to be fumbling during non-contact practices.
CB TARIQ CASTRO-FIELDS
I wrote down TCF’s number in my notes a lot this spring. And not because he was making plays … but rather because he was allowing them.
OL BRETT TOTH
With Cam Jurgens still recovering from offseason back surgery, Toth was the Eagles’ first-team center. He struggled to snap the ball effectively to the point where it ruined multiple reps for the offense. Toth had this same exact issue two years ago, which led to the Eagles re-signing Josh Andrews just to have a center who could properly snap the ball in practice. Jurgens is expected to be ready for training camp, so, that’s good. Still, it’s time to end the Toth at center experiment. It’s just not working. Drew Kendall should be getting his center reps.
OG KENYON GREEN
Entering OTAs, there was thought that Green and Tyler Steen were competing for the starting right guard spot. Steen then took all the first-team RG reps while Green lined up at left guard with the second-team and third-team offensive lines. There’s a higher chance of Green not making the roster than there is of him winning a starting job this season.
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