The Eagles and Brandon Graham, the first-round pick expected to bolster their pass rush, agreed to terms on a five-year contract, the team said Thursday night. Financial terms were not disclosed. Graham, a defensive end taken 13th overall in April’s draft, is expected to report to Lehigh University on Friday and could participate in the first full team practice of training camp, scheduled for 3:30 p.m., if his signing goes as planned. “It feels good, because I really wanted to get to training camp and Coach [Andy] Reid really wanted me to get to camp, and now it’s time to show them why they picked me,” Graham said in comments provided by the team. The Eagles traded three draft picks in
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Eagles and top pick Graham agree to 5-year deal
Alex Hall was gone before he even got here. That is, Eagles veterans don’t report to Lehigh until this afternoon, something Hall undoubtedly was preparing for either late Tuesday night or very early yesterday morning, when he was informed he had been released so the Birds could make room on the 80-man roster to officially sign second-round pick Nate Allen. It’s not like Hall was a projected starter or anything, but given that he played 30 games the past two seasons with the Browns, and the Eagles traded for him in April (Hall and fourth- and fifth-round picks for Chris Gocong and Sheldon Brown), you expected he would at least make it into training camp and play some preseason games. The
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Eagles cut Alex Hall, a victim of defense-heavy draft and scheme
Of all the players the Eagles could have cut Wednesday, they chose a linebacker they had traded for only months ago. That head-scratcher came early in the morning when the team, needing to clear room on its 80-man roster for recently signed rookie safety Nate Allen, released Alex Hall. Hall, a 6-foot-5, 250-pound hybrid linebacker, came to the Eagles in the April trade that sent cornerback Sheldon Brown and linebacker Chris Gocong to Cleveland. He was hardly the only piece the Eagles got in the deal - they also received fourth- and fifth-round picks. Hall, who was used sparingly in 30 games for the Browns, was more of a toss-in, according to a team source. In addition to the draft picks,
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A brief stay for linebacker
It wasn’t exactly a smooth start for Eagles safety Nate Allen. Allen missed the first day of training camp Tuesday while contract negotiations dragged out. Then, with a deal close, last-minute haggling prevented him from signing until about 2:30 Wednesday morning. Working on less than four hours’ sleep, he dropped the first ball lobbed his way in warm-ups, and dropped to the ground for push-ups. “It was kind of a wake-up call, I guess you could say,” Allen said. Eagles coaches quickly will forget the first-day hiccups if Allen emerges as the player they hoped for when they drafted him 37th overall in April: a slick coverage man with a knack for interceptions and, more broadly, a player who
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Allen eager to prove himself
For each change made in this most transforming of off-seasons, the Eagles had an answer. It could be argued - and, indeed, it has been - that the answers won’t prove to be the correct ones. But, by and large, when the Eagles dumped a player during a frenzied month of cuts and trades, they did so with a reasonable replacement in mind. But there was one move and the lack of a counter-move that remains a head-scratcher for many. When the Eagles open training camp in Bethlehem on Monday with the reporting of rookies and selected veterans, there will be new faces at positions that had been synonymous with their previous occupants. For the first time in years, Donovan McNabb will not be the
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Eagles look to Hobbs to replace Brown
Two years ago, on the eve of training camp for Eagles rookies and selected veterans, the team still hadn’t signed its first two draft picks. Quantcast There was a murmur of concern from fans because defensive tackle Trevor Laws, chosen 47th overall, and wide receiver DeSean Jackson, drafted two spots later, wouldn’t arrive at Lehigh for the start of camp. Tensions were eased when Jackson signed the day before camp commenced. Laws signed the following day, although a foot injury sustained before camp kept the former Notre Dame lineman sidelined anyway. The moral? Right now, there’s no reason to throw a tizzy about second-round pick Nate Allen’s lack of a contract with just three days to go
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Don’t fret about Eagles draftees just yet
The Eagles signed another draft pick Wednesday, announcing an agreement with third-round pick Daniel Te’o-Nesheim on a four-year deal. Only three of the draft picks remained unsigned. The team hopes Te’o-Nesheim, a defensive end from the University of Washington, emerges into a pass rusher from the interior line in nickel packages, the role formerly occupied by Darren Howard.
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Eagles agree with another draftee
There is no McDonald’s in Hawthorne, Fla. No Burger King. No fast-food establishments at all. When a Subway came to town, it was a big deal. So when Cornelius Ingram goes home to the town located near Gainesville, he usually eats at the Burger Barn. The owner has something for the Eagles tight end to sign. And wherever Ingram goes, rock-star treatment ensues. He walks down the street and people hunt him down for photos and autographs. He loves his hometown, he really does. But, no, he can’t fully embrace its praise. Not yet, anyway. “I want to get something done on the field first,” Ingram says. It’s been 2 1/2 years since Ingram played a down of football. Two anterior cruciate ligament …
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Eagles tight end Ingram eager to return to game action
At the time, the 2009 draft-day trade that landed Jeremy Maclin in an Eagles uniform seemed curious. Sure, the projected top-10 pick had slid to the middle-bottom of the first round — great value for the draft position. But the Eagles had already addressed their annual wideout problem the year before when DeSean Jackson, a second-round pick, become a sensation by the end of his first professional game. Now, it’s hard to believe the Eagles could have made the playoffs last year without Maclin. He subbed almost immediately for an injured Kevin Curtis and seized control of the starting job. This year, with an entire season under his belt and without swimming mental laps though a strange and …
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Maclin looks to get better
When the Eagles used the 37th pick in April’s draft to grab South Florida safety Nate Allen, it was clear they thought highly of his future in the NFL. They probably didn’t expect it to arrive so fast. Allen, a 22-year-old from South Florida, was running with the Eagles’ first team defense Wednesday, a day after veteran Marlin Jackson was lost likely for the season because of injury. Allen’s fellow defenders praised his physical skills but stressed the importance of honing his mental game - learning the defense, handling pressure, and being prepared to cope with the ups and downs of a long season. “Obviously in this defense he’s got his work cut out for him,” strong safety Quintin Mikell …
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Rookie safety Allen runs with Eagles’ first team
Clay Harbor speaks to his older brother, Cory, just about every evening; Clay sketching the details of life in Eagles rookie camp for Cory, Clay’s teammate at Missouri State who didn’t get an NFL opportunity. Cory, who just finished work on his master’s, can take at least partial credit for the career of his brother, a fourth-round rookie tight end. If Cory hadn’t insisted, Clay probably never would have gotten a college scholarship offer. The Harbor brothers grew up in Dwight, Ill., a town of about 4,300 people. Clay said the high school, with about 300 kids, fields a combined football team with a school from another town. College recruiters don’t flock to the area, in rural Illinois. …
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Thanks to persistent brother, Harbor now with Eagles
Amazing what you can find out when you finally get to talk to a guy. Reporters covering the Eagles have wondered what Ellis Hobbs thought about being named the starting right corner, after the team traded Sheldon Brown to Cleveland last month. Through the Eagles, Hobbs had declined requests to be interviewed, but he was more than willing to talk yesterday, after taking part in individual drills as a few more “select” vets joined rookie camp at NovaCare. Turns out Hobbs never knew, he said, that general manager Howie Roseman designated him as the starter in the wake of the Brown trade. “That’s my first time hearing you say that, that Howie said that,” Hobbs, 27, said. “I don’t get involved …
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Cornerback Hobbs excited about starting role with Eagles
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