There isn’t an Eagles fan in the Delaware Valley or anywhere else that hasn’t heard about the struggles of Day 2 and Day 3.
As you might expect, with a young offense (and a young signal-caller behind center), the defense
Day 2 (Friday, July 29th)
As you might expect, with a young offense (and a young signal-caller behind center), the defense is slightly ahead of the offense at this juncture.
After a decent first day, Jalen Hurts was challenged on Friday and Saturday. Here’s how he did.
Best throws:
The Eagles placed him under center for this one. QB1 made up for the overthrow of A.J. Brown, with WR1 running towards the sideline on Day 1 by hitting him with a pretty pass on Friday. This one came during 11-on-11 drills.
Worst throws:
Perhaps one of the advantages of this being training camp is Hurts is allowed to try and thread the needle on a few instances during situations where he may not try to do so in a game that counts toward the win-loss total.
Here’s one of those throws that you may have heard about. A bad-looking, off-balance toss off of Hurts’ back foot winds up in the hands of Avonte Maddox. He robbed Dallas Goedert in the process.
Day 3 (Friday, July 30th)
Best throws:
Jalen Reagor season returns. Always the star at this time of the year, Reag runs a nice route towards the sideline and hauls in a nice toss from QB1. In another instance, during some seven-on-seven work, one of Hurts’ best throws results in an incompletion.
Jalen tosses a rare deep ball down the sideline. The throw is near-perfect, but Quez Watkins doesn’t come up with the reception. Quez has been having a good camp, but the argument can be made that he could have shown a little more effort on that one.
Worst throw:
Perhaps his worst throw of camp so far, Jalen Hurts rolls left and throws across his body. Again, one can ask if he’s gambling a little because we’re discussing a practice session, but either way, the ball ended up in Andre Chachere’s hands. That, most certainly isn’t how that one was drawn up.