Check out how good Philadelphia Eagles CB Jalen Mills is looking

Jalen Mills is eyeing a return by the time Philadelphia Eagles training camp officially gets underway on July 24th. By the looks of things, that’s a very real possibility.

These days, it almost seems as though you can start a podcast centered around the Philadelphia Eagles secondary. Sitting around in the blazing heat of the Summer and guzzling down whatever it is you want to drink to cool you off can make you come up with about four episodes without even trying. Here’s the inaugural story on this new idea. What’s going on with ‘The Green Goblin’, Jalen Mills?

As just about every Eagles fan knows, unless of course you fall under the category of a ‘new’ or ‘casual’ fan, Mills started every one of Philly’s first eight games of the 2018 regular season before a foot injury caused him to sit out of the next four.

Now, if you’re, indeed, a fan of ‘The Birds’, you know what came next without us having to say it. You know you’re going to hear Eagles head coach Doug Pederson give us the old ‘he’s dealing with a foot injury’ and the familiar ‘he’s day to day’, and you did. That gave us all hope; but ultimately, the team would decide that they were better off placing him on the team’s IR (injured reserve).

That was December 8th of last year.

Fast forward, and we’ve heard everything, depending on who you are listening to, from Philly may trade him when he’s healthy to Mills may not make this team to statements like ‘Don’t be ridiculous. Of course Mills will make the team.’

The questions are when will he be back, and is he certain to be a part of Philly’s long-term plans? The answer to the second question is a little cloudy, but ‘The Goblin’ has his own theories on what the answer is to the first. He’s shooting for a return right around the start of training camp.

He was noticably absent from mandatory minicamp (he did have a good reason), but after seeing a couple of clips surface on Twitter that came via both ESPN sports data analyst Logan Banker and 94 WIP-FM’s Eliot Schorr-Parks, ‘Birds’ fans are a little more comfortable with Mills’ assessment of himself.

Take a look.

Now, we just need a team doctor to echo what Mills is saying. Until that happens and camp starts, let’s get back to that podcast on the secondary. How about a few more topics?

How good can Avonte Maddox become? Is Cre’Von LeBlanc truly here to stay? When is Malcolm Jenkins going to get paid? Better yet, will he leave the nest almost reminiscent of the way Brian Dawkins was allowed to leave a little over ten years ago? These are all interesting topics indeed. We’ll all have to wait and see what happens and how this all plays out together.