Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010, 9:37 AM | 43 comments |
 

Projected Eagles Depth Chart
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It’s a long way until the season opener on Sept. 12, but with the Eagles reconvening Friday for mandatory minicamp coach Andy Reid will get his first on-field look at the team he and general manager Howie Roseman assembled this off-season.

With the addition of 13 draft picks and 11 other acquisitions, there are a lot of new faces. On Saturday, Reid was asked if he may need to have his new players wear name tags around the NovaCare Complex.

“I’ll tell you, it’s going to be tough on you [reporters] and it’s going to be tough on me, too,” Reid said. “We’ll get it all done. It’ll be a challenge for these guys to make sure that their name stands out. Stand out and show us what they can do.”

That goes for a number of the veterans, too. Some may quibble with several of the new additions, but if the Eagles did anything this off-season it was to create competition -- especially on the defensive side of the ball.
There are at least five starting spots on defense and many more roster spots up for grabs. So let the race begin and may the best men win.

Here’s how Reid and his assistants might have the depth chart aligned after this past week’s draft and heading into minicamp. Bear in mind, this isn't a prediction of how the depth chart should look, but merely a reflection of how I envision the Eagles will list it after this coming weekend:

Rookies are in bold.
Off-season acquisitions in italics.
Injured player in [brackets].
*Some rookies and other new players haven't been assigned uniform numbers yet.

OFFENSE

WR 18 Jeremy Maclin        84 Hank Baskett               Riley Cooper        11 Dobson Collins
LT  71 Jason Peters           79 Todd Herremans       65 King Dunlap
LG  79 Todd Herremans     59 Nick Cole                 77 Mike McGlynn
C    59 Nick Cole                77 Mike McGlynn         67 [Jamaal Jackson]        A.Q. Shipley
RG  76 Stacy Andrews       62 Max Jean-Gilles        66 Dallas Reynolds
RT  74 Winston Justice       65 King Dunlap             78 Fenuki Tupou
TE   87 Brent Celek           88 [Cornelius Ingram]    89 Martin Rucker            Clay Harbor
WR  10 DeSean Jackson     81 Jason Avant             19 Jordon Norwood    21 Chad Hall
FB   43 Leonard Weaver        Dwayne Wright             Charles Scott
RB   25 LeSean McCoy       26 Mike Bell                 34 Eldra Buckley            Martell Mallett
QB    4  Kevin Kolb              7  Michael Vick                Mike Kafka

DEFENSE

LDE   75 Juqua Parker         94 Brandon Graham  95 [Abiamiri, Victor]            Ricky Sapp
LDT   98 Mike Patterson      93 Trevor Laws
RDT   97 Brodrick Bunkley  64 Antonio Dixon              Jeff Owens
RDE   58 Trent Cole             91 Darryl Tapp                Daniel Te’o-Nesheim
WILL 50 Ernie Sims            56 Akeem Jordan              Keenan Clayton
MLB  55 Stewart Bradley     96 Omar Gaither          51 Joe Mays
SAM  53 Moise Fokou          57 Alex Hall                     Jamar Chaney
LCB   22 Asante Samuel      21 Joselio Hanson        30 Geoffrey Pope
RCB   31 [Ellis Hobbs]              Trevard Lindley    23 Dmitri Patterson           
SS      27 Quintin Mikell        39 Quintin Demps             Kurt Coleman
FS      28 [Marlin Jackson]   24 Macho Harris           29 Nate Allen 

SPECIALISTS

P         6 Sav Rocca                  Durant Brooks
K         2 Akers, David         
H         6 Sav Rocca
PR       10 DeSean Jackson     18 Jeremy Maclin
KOR    31 Ellis Hobbs             39 Quintin Demps        24 Macho Harris
LS       46 Jon Dorenbos          87 Brent Celek

 

**To view the projected depth chart as a graphic, CLICK HERE


 
Posted by Jeff McLane @ 9:37 AM  Permalink | 43 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:07 AM, 04/26/2010
    Let's go Durrant Brooks!!!
    — dr.elektrika
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:49 AM, 04/26/2010
    This team is going to suck
    — albanykey
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:49 AM, 04/26/2010
    That's a pretty sorry secondary
    — tampaPhillyfan
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:53 AM, 04/26/2010
    When is next year's draft?
    — TVGuy22
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:16 AM, 04/26/2010
    we trade up to 13 and the guy isnt even a projected starter...swell
    — SWP
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:27 AM, 04/26/2010
    I was disappointed with the Eagles' first trade-up to get Brandon Graham, not because he may not be an impact player, but because they had to give up the two third round draft picks. Had they stood pat, they would have been in position to get an impact cornerback, which seemed to be their biggest need. Also, they could have come away with at least three if not four very good players in the first three rounds. As it stands now, they only appear to have come away with two good players.
    — tbird
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:53 AM, 04/26/2010
    No starters? At best two back-ups?!! When coaches believe that they are smarter than the rest of the league and their own scouts, this is what you get. Just look at Denver where McDaniels beleives he can coach-up anyone (e.g. Tebow).
    — LA Mike
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:57 AM, 04/26/2010
    Nate Allen can show up with a broken leg and he'll be ahead of Macho Harris on the depth chart.
    — BIG_PHILLY
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:15 PM, 04/26/2010
    great - 2 of the 4 DB positions show starting a guy who's injured - that is too funny - and how can you show your 2nd round pick as a 3rd string behind Macho Harris? Someone kill me now!
    — Tom Man
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:15 PM, 04/26/2010
    We still look a little thin at SAM, corner, Oline and DT. Hopefully we can find some help in the form of undrafted free agents.
    — PhillyTru
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:40 PM, 04/26/2010
    6-10 this season, hopefully that allows us to address our OL and secondary needs in the next draft.
    — Tar Heel 1
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:41 PM, 04/26/2010
    Guys: It's APRIL! This is a depth chart written by a newspaper guy to make the readers comment. More "whoa, we suck" comments means more people reading future blogs and articles. Youngest team in NFL, wouldn't we all agree a step back in 2010 to build for a long run is a pretty good trade off? Or, would you want another 10-6 record, including the annual bad losses (or ties) and falling flat early in the playoffs? I am cautiously optimistic. Bigger concerns are the Phils; rotation may be worse this yr than last. KING~out
    — thee~KING
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:41 PM, 04/26/2010
    I think Ricky Sapp should be at the SAM. Please tell coach Reid.
    — Spider Rico
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:01 PM, 04/26/2010
    McLane understands that teams often don't list rookies as starters in the first depth chart, including those that they feel should be starters on opening day.
    — Raggamonkey


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