Eagles practice notes, Day 2: Jalen Reagor’s rare athletics

Day 2 of the Philadelphia Eagles training camp is in the books. Let’s just get to the notes.

• (throat works) … Injuries:

1. The two players who indicated the Eagles on Monday – Jason Peters en JJ Arcega-Whiteside – sat in pads, but not one of the century participated. We will continue with supervision.
2. These are not injuries, however Jason Kelce, DeSean Jackson, en Malik Jackson all had “old man” days on Tuesday AKA, “scheduled maintenance” days.

With Peters and Kelce out, the attacking line looked like this:

There are some downsides to offensive line fitting today:

1. Andre Dillard has to deal with an injury “lower body”, I am told, but still exercising. That would explain his performance in and out of the lineup yesterday. Good for him for playing through some pain during a training camp.
2. Matt Pryor’s appearance at LG is remarkable, as he has only had cross-training at RG and RT in previous seasons, at least during training camp, as we can see. They are now adding LG to its plate, which makes sense.
3. Nate Herbig got a little taste of the official of the first team.

As long as we’re on the offensive line, the highlights of the OL-DL 1-on-1 sessions are:

1. Jack Driscoll had a nice rep against DT-Anthony Rush of 350 pounds. While it’s fair to note that a 350 pound DT will not attempt speed around the corner (so there is no mystery about what he will do), Driscoll anchored nicely against him. Like Dillard a year ago, there are no worries about Driscoll’s track and field. He has that. The care is functional strength against the big boys.
2. Prince Tega Wanogho had several fun reps. He stonewalled Genard Avery several times, and sent Josh Sweat far enough around the corner, for which he would not be a threat Connor Barwin, who served as quarterback.
3. Casey Toohill ferballe Jordan Mailata (plays on the right side, his uncomfortable side) on two straight reps. The first was a spin inside, in which Toohill Mailata looked like he had cinderblock feet. On the next rep, Toohill came under Mailata under an outside rush, and then pushed himself back into Barwin. Last year in camp, Joe Ostman got several times the best of Mailata with inside spin movements.

• And in WR-DB 1-on-1s:

1. Darius Slay had a nice breakthrough on a go route from Quez Watkins. Watkins actually had a step on Slay, so Slay did not turn to look for the ball, and instead stood in front of Watkins and knocked the ball out when he arrived. Well done.
2. Sidney Jones had a double interpretation at coverage Adrian Killins, which, as we noted yesterday, works with the wide receivers, not the running backpacks. There are two ways to see Killins at a wide receiver. If your glass is half full, you might say that the team looks quickly at Killins, that they see what he can do at receiver. If you’re a glass half empty type, maybe it’s thought process that he has no chance to run back because of his Donnell Pumphrey-like size. Killins has so far not looked comfortable with receiver. He could not locate a pass on a lock barrel yesterday, and the pass on the Jones pick was nowhere on Killins, so I wonder if he was not where he should have been.
3. On the way Jalen Reagor had a few steps on UDFA CB Michael Jacquet, and you could see the last burst of Reagor when the ball came down. It was a bit of a turnaround ball through Jalen Hurts, but Reagor could still get two hands in it, but could not bring it inside.

• Reagor’s impressive athleticism is obvious, even if he does not make catches. In addition to the above-mentioned imperfect go-route, Reagor went with a ball over the middle that was too high. Most receivers would not have even tried to jump for it, but Reagor did, and his hops are something to behold. Reagor recorded a 42 “vertical jump at the Combine, and he showed it on the field.

After the practice, in an interview with reporters, Reagor said the feedback from Carson Wentz is that he can do things in the field athletically that other receivers simply cannot do.

“We always see a lot of clips with our routes and things like that. And he’s like, you’re explosive like Julio [Jones], “Said Reagor.” You can run fast. You can jump high. That he compares me to many recipients. And he just says, there are certain routes that certain people can’t walk, and he’s like, ‘You can walk those routes.’ He puts me on there. He puts it all on me that I am ready to work on it every day. “

• Wentz had something of a frustrating day:

1. He threw two pick-sixes. One was not his fault because it shook off Corey Clement in the hands of Nate Gerry, who race for a TD. The other was around Jalen Mills, who seems to read Wentz’s eyes, stepped for a short throw over the middle and took it the other way. Jim Schwartz no doubt nice to see that of the man who took for him Malcolm Jenkins this year.
2. During a red zone session, Wentz threw a ball away from the back of the end zone, and even added something extra. I would say he shook it a good 30 feet in the air. He then turned around and threw his helmet on the ground. I actually think that’s a positive. Not that Wentz’s competitiveness is in question as it has ever been, but it’s good to see a small fire early in camp, I think.
3. He finished on a positive note, and aired a nice touchpass over the top to John Hightower for a TD. All the young recipients have already made plays, by the way. If somehow two of their pans, that would be enormous for the long-term prospect of this crime.

• Jalen Hurts got some action in the red zone today, and he ran a lot. On one play he joked Marcus Epps, and scored. On his last rep of the red zone, he ran game action to the left, and booted to the right, to find Josh Perkins in the back of the end zone. In my rookie comparison series, we compiled Hurts Dak Prescott. As a runner, Hurts can run through you, or through you, like Prescott, except Hurts is faster. We’ll see what Hurts can become as a passerby in time.

Hurts were caught today. He threw a pass with some zip over the middle that looked like it could have just, except that the intended receiver (Hightower) fell down. K’Von Wallace was at the right pace to make the choice.

• My official “first man to get into a fight” prediction is Shaun Bradley. He decorated Deontay Burnett near the sideline today. Yesterday he gave up Dallas Goedert a little extra after Goedert pulled a ball over the middle. I appreciate the enthusiasm. He will piss a veteran soon enough.

• Bradley aside, there was some popping today. The biggest pop was by an unknown defender in the middle of the line on a goal line situation that stopped Boston Scott in his tracks and throws him violently on the ground. (It was 110 meters from where the media was standing, so I could not see who. Sorry.)

There was also a play in which a recipient (it was Burnett or Greg Ward – it happened so fast I could not get a definitive ID on him) explained Brandon Graham. You see, Graham is not often hit in the ground by a wide receiver, and in this case it was probably an illegal crackback block, but whatever. The point is that it has sometimes been fresh for the first few days.

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