Facts and figures about the Eagles' rookies

THE NEWEST BATCH of Eagles rookies will start a three-day minicamp on Friday. While the guy who broke Reggie White's college record is the most prominent, plenty of others will be vying for the coaches' eyes.

Here are some notes, quotes and anecdotes about some of the newest players to join the Birds' nest.

* First-round draft pick Derek Barnett had 33 sacks in 39 games at Tennessee. Here's the list by opponent, starting with the 29 he had against SEC rivals: South Carolina (7 sacks), Kentucky (5), Vanderbilt (4), Florida (3), Georgia (3), Mississippi (3), Alabama (2), Missouri (1), Texas A&M (1). He had one each in nonconference games against Nebraska, North Texas, Northwestern and Oklahoma.

* Before Tennessee, Barnett attended Brentwood Academy, a prestigious college prep school near Nashville. Brentwood's nickname is the Eagles.

* Sidney Jones, a projected early first-round pick, tore his Achilles' tendon on March 11 and slipped to the second round, No. 43 overall. He won't be back before September, if at all this season.

* Terms of the four-year deal he signed on Thursday were undisclosed. But according to projections from Spotrac.com immediately after the draft, the financial difference being the 14th overall selection (the Eagles first pick) vs. the 43rd is about $5 million in signing bonus and $7 million in contract value.

* Last season's No. 14 pick (Oakland safety Karl Joseph) received a four-year contract valued at $11.8 million with a $6.8 million signing bonus. The No. 43 pick (Tennessee defensive tackle Austin Johnson) got a four-year deal for $5.6 mil with a signing bonus of $2.3 million. Quite a difference.

* Charles Walker, an undrafted defensive tackle from Oklahoma, quit the Sooners midway through last season because of concussion symptoms. He has been troubled by them since high school but thinks football is a way for him to provide for his family. "I'm going to keep working until the teams tell me I can't do it," Walker told the Oklahoman. " . . . I'm still going to do it. I'll play overseas, something." He arguably has first-round talent, but can he stay healthy?

* Fifth-round pick Nathan Gerry played safety at Nebraska but the Birds will switch him to linebacker. He had 13 interceptions, but missed the season opener because of an undisclosed suspension and was academically ineligible for Nebraska's bowl game. His last name is pronounced Gary.

* Gerry went to Washington High School in Sioux Falls, S.D. - the same school that produced "Hutch" from the 1970s TV show Starsky & Hutch. Actor David Soul was in the class of 1961.

* Fourth-round pick Donnel Pumphrey is being touted as the all-time rushing leader at the FCS (Division I) level, but there ought to be an asterisk. Before 2002, the NCAA did not recognize bowl games in career stats, which is a disservice to local legend Ron Dayne.

* Pumphrey, counting bowls, had 6,405 yards in 54 games. If you count bowl games for Dayne - who won the 1999 Heisman at Wisconsin after starring at South Jersey's Overbrook High - he gained 7,125 yards in 47 games. If you take out bowl games for both players, Dayne has 6,397 yards in 43 games, while Pumphrey has 6,077 yards in 50 games.

* One other note, if you throw in bowl games, Pitt's Tony Dorsett ran for 6,526 yards from 1973-76.

* Regardless, Pumphrey's statistics are outrageous, especially considering he's listed at 5-9, 180. "And don't let the size fool you," said Joe Douglas, the Eagles VP of player personnel. "This guy, he's a little dog that thinks he's a big dog, and he plays that way."

* After he decided to turn pro, Barnett wrote an open letter to his fellow students at Tennessee in which he thanked everyone from the coaching staff to the equipment managers to his mother, Christine.

* "I've seen how hard you've worked since I was a kid," Barnett wrote. "I have always been inspired by that and that's where I get my motivation from." Christine intends to keep her job sorting packages for UPS.

* Grabbing a defensive tackle such as sixth-rounder Washington's Elijah Qualls became more urgent with the torn pectoral injury to Beau Allen, who likely will be out at least through training camp.

* If he gets into a game, Qualls would become the third Eagles player whose last name begins with Q, joining the great Mike Quick (1982-90) and Bill Quinlan (1963).

* When Qualls was a junior in high school, he was a 270-pound running back who ran for 1,339 yards and 13 touchdowns. Oh, those poor kids trying to tackle him.

* Undrafted running back Corey Clement played at Glassboro High School, where he once ran for 478 yards in a game. He had a checkered career at Wisconsin, including missing most of his junior year with a sports hernia injury he had corrected with surgery in Germany.

* Barnett, the first-rounder, wore No. 7 for most of his high school career, the same number 2014 No. 1 overall pick Jadeveon Clowney wore at South Carolina. Barnett switched to No. 9 his senior season at Brentwood, "because I wanted to choose a different number than Clowney," he told the Chattanooga Times Free Press in 2014 shortly after turning 18. "I wanted to be a role model to younger kids, so maybe they can wear No. 9 one day."

* And then there's third-round pick Rasul Douglas, who played baseball while growing up in East Orange, N.J., and was a huge fan of Derek Jeter. "I played shortstop," he told West Virginia Metro News. "Even wore the No. 2 just like him."

* Douglas didn't start playing football until his junior year of high school. He played at Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y., before arriving at West Virginia in 2015.

* Douglas ended up being the third-round pick (No. 99 overall) the Eagles acquired from Baltimore along with DT Tim Jernigan. The Eagles gave the Ravens the 74th overall pick, which Baltimore used on Michigan defensive end Chris Wormley.

* The Eagles did not draft a player out of West Virginia in the 47 years from 1969 through 2015. In the last two drafts, they've picked Wendell Smallwood (fifth round, 2016), Rasul Douglas and Shelton Gibson.

* NFL analyst Brian Baldinger on Gibson, a fifth-rounder: "Maybe he's just one of those guys who plays faster than he tests." Gibson ran a 4.5 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine, a relatively modest figure for a receiver who has been compared to DeSean Jackson.

* Pumphrey, the fourth-round running back, played in five games against teams in Power-5 conferences over his final three seasons. His most ineffective game came during San Diego State's loss at Penn State in 2015, when Pumphrey was held to 56 yards on 18 carries and had a killer fumble near the end of the first half. He added another 53 yards on five receptions.

* However, he set a career high by scorching Cal for a career-best 281 yards last season in a 45-40 win. He broke Marshall Faulk's school record for rushing yards in a career.

* In three games against Alabama, Derek Barnett had 11 tackles, 2.0 sacks, 2.5 other tackles for loss and his only career interception. The pick came off a deflection of a pass from freshman QB Jalen Hurts.

* Fourth-rounder Mack Hollins walked on at North Carolina and by the middle of his freshman year was a special-teams captain. He held that position for four seasons.

* Hollins missed the final six games last season after he broke his right clavicle in a win at No. 16 Miami. Hollins made the catch on the 49-yard play, but a better throw by quarterback Mitch Trubisky probably would have avoided the injury.

* Douglas, the third-round corner, is the first player who's led the NCAA in interceptions to be drafted by the Eagles since the 1970 merger. The only other interception champ to even play for the Eagles was Terry Hoage, who led the nation in picks while at Georgia in 1982 and played for the Birds from 1986-90.

* Douglas and Florida State's Tarvarus McFadden tied for the interception lead with eight. McFadden is returning to FSU for his junior season.

* Barnett, of course, famously broke Reggie White's Tennessee record for sacks with 33 in 39 games. He played one season fewer than Reggie, but only three fewer games. The college football season was shorter when Reggie played 42 games from 1980-83.

* Hollins, the fourth-round receiver, is third all-time at UNC with 20 touchdown receptions. Hakeem Nicks (2006-08) is second with 21. First is Quinshad Davis (2012-15) with 25. Certainly remember Nicks, but not Davis. He signed with the CFL last month. P.S.: Na Brown is eighth on that list.

* Pumphrey's coach at Canyon Springs High School in Las Vegas was Hunkie Cooper, one of the legendary two-way players in Arena Football League history. The eventual fourth-rounder was in 12th grade in 2012 when his daughter Maliya was born. Cooper helped guide him through what was a whole new set of responsibilities for the star running back.

"I was that kid. I was 18 when I had my first child, and I was a pretty good football player, too," Cooper told the Las Vegas Sun. "I told him we're going to work together to find common ground because she's the most important thing. It's not about him anymore."

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