Needing to narrow their roster to 80 players before starting practice, the Philadelphia Eagles wasted little time and announced that they had quit five players. They are as follows:
• WR Shelton Gibson: Gibson did not turn out as a fifth-round pick in 2017 as a deep threat on the Eagles’ offense. He’s been on and off the Eagles’ roster, mostly as a gunner on the punt team. He really made a great play in the playoff game against the Seahawks, when he pulled out a 39-yard pass interference call that at least put the Eagles in position to tie the game late, but John Hightower and Quez Watkins’ picks in the 2020 draft, but sealed its release.
• WR Marcus Green: Green was a recruited player in 2019 (sixth round, Falcons) whom Atlanta gave up on 53-man cuts. The Eagles snatched him away and he spent most of the season in his practice squad. He is a small boy (5’8, 191) with some return ability (five TDs back in college).
• FROM Daeshon Hall: In an extremely unfortunate turn of events, Hall broke his ACL on the regular-season finale against the Giants, because Pat Shurmur was calling timeouts in a completely meaningless game (to them) that was totally out. within your reach. The Eagles could have put Hall on the PUP list, but instead chose to cut him.
(Keep in mind, Hall would still count to the 90-man roster during training camp if he was on the PUP roster. He wouldn’t count the 53-man roster if he stayed on the PUP in the regular season.)
• DT Albert Huggins: Huggins played in 3 games for the Eagles last season, and had 3 tackles. He couldn’t provide any obvious opportunity to do a hug word game.
• CB Tremon Smith: Smith was a draft pick for the Chiefs in the sixth round in 2018, where he played in 14 games as a rookie, starting one. He was also the one who returned the main kick to the Chiefs, and the Chiefs even played with him on the return. They cut him off the following season, and he was on and off the Packers roster for the entire season in 2019, before the Eagles signed him with their practice squad in December.
According to my account, the Eagles roster is 82 (plus DE Matt Leo, an exempt player from the roster). Two more cuts left.
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