Philadelphia Eagles: Ranking Top 5 Thinnest Positions

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2) Safety

The safety position has consistently been the achilles heel of the Philadelphia Eagles since the team released future hall of famer Brian Dawkins years ago. The team made a big step in changing that narrative last offseason by signing Malcolm Jenkins. Jenkins had a good season and is already one of the teams biggest leaders on and off the field. Now the team needs to find someone opposite of Malcolm to sure up a leaky secondary.

The Eagles went after safety Devin McCourty hard in free agency but couldn’t finish the deal, so the team elected to pass on overpaying for average safeties. But with this decision, it left the team pretty thin at the safety position. The Philadelphia Eagles look for safeties that have coverage ability as the team likes to stay in base defense, but the safeties on the roster currently aren’t very reliable. Earl Wolff once showed promise but has dealt with a plethora of injuries, and Jerome Couplin has freakish physical tools but has no real experience.

The team has now decided to move corner Walter Thurmond, whom they signed in free agency, over to safety in hopes that his coverage ability will sure up the secondary. Reports out of Eagles practices were positive about Thurmond, even Chip Kelly sang his praises. Even with the glowing reviews, the safety position is still extremely thin from the starter opposite Jenkins, to the guys on the fringe of the roster.

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