Arguably, the biggest concern going into OTAs for the Philadelphia Eagles was at safety, with Marcus Epps leading the charge to replace Reed Blankenship.
There will be a lengthy position battle at safety as they try to find the right man for that job, but it is not the only position group Eagles fans should worry about. Eagles reporter Eliot Shorr-Parks shared another observation from when he was at OTAs, as he wasn't as concerned about the safety position.
"I've been watching them practice, their backup offensive line is, is really, really thin," Shorr-Parks said via SportsRadio94 WIP. "I mean, they have Fred Johnson at backup tackle, but outside of that, they have no offensive lineman that has any type of meaningful NFL action, and most of them have never played in the NFL. The backup center when I was there was Jake Majors. He's never played in the NFL. Drew Kendall was the backup guard. He's never played meaningful snaps in the NFL."
Eagles might have bigger problems with their second-string offensive linemen
This was always going to be a problem for the Eagles as they saw Brett Toth and Matt Pryor sign elsewhere in free agency, leaving them with a bunch of young players who most weren't even active last year. The two most prominent backups are Fred Johnson and rookie third-round pick Markel Bell.
Fred Johnson has stepped up over the years despite injuries and has played well, including last year, when he was the right tackle in place of the injured Lane Johnson. Bell has no playing experience, obviously, but did take first-team reps at OTAs in Lane Johnson's absence, which is a good sign of what's to come.
As for the rest of the offensive linemen on the Eagles who are backups, it is a toss-up on who is actually going to be good. Majors was considered a fourth-string center before OTAs and is now playing with the backups, which is an interesting choice. There are second-year players like Cameron Williams, Myles Hinton, Drew Kendall, and Hollin Pierce who are expected to take massive steps in Year 2, but none of them made any kind of impact on the Eagles and didn't particularly play well in preseason last year.
Rookie sixth-round pick Micah Morris will be an interesting piece of the offensive line to see how far up he is on the depth chart. Morris is seen as a potential successor to Landon Dickerson if he decides to retire early from football.
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There are already so many questions about the starters on the offensive line and whether they can stay healthy, so for all these questions to be directed at the backups is a bad sign that the Eagles, for the most part, don't have a plan B at the moment.
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