Ranking the top 5 Eagles depth chart battles to watch this summer
. . Defensive Tackle. 4. player. 54.
The Eagles have a lot of bodies at the defensive end position, and they all can play.
For all intents and purposes, it feels like the 2022-2023 NFL season could be Fletcher Cox‘s swan song. It’s sad. Fletch clearly isn’t the player that he once was, and the saying goes that, if players refuse to retire, they’ll eventually be retired by the game. Still, thinking about him in another jersey makes one’s stomach turn, but until that day comes, he’ll make the Eagles roster.
The same can be said for one of Philly’s five Pro Bowl nods from a year ago, Javon Hargrave. He enters the final year of a deal that he signed back on March 21st of 2020 but has settled in nicely as one of the most important cogs in the Eagles’ defensive engine.
That brings us to some of the young guys. We can agree on theories that Jordan Davis makes the team right? If we were to gamble, we’d probably state that Milton Williams is safe too. You never know though. Still, that’s where things get murky.
When we knew the plan was for the Eagles to employ the 4-3 defensive scheme, the battle plan was to traditionally carry four defensive tackles on the 53-man roster. Will that change with what’s presumed to be a scheme crafted by Jonathan Gannon that features multiple looks in its base set? That will be one of the storylines as we move towards and through training camp.