5 minutes with ... Chris Clemons

POSITION: Defensive end

HEIGHT, WEIGHT: 6-2, 240

AGE: 27

BIRTHDATE: Oct. 30, 1981

HOMETOWN: Griffin, Ga.

YEARS PRO: 5

HOW ACQUIRED: Signed 5-year, $12.6 million free-agent deal on March 1.

CAREER: Had eight sacks with the Raiders last year after missing all of 2006 with a knee injury. Spent 2004-05 with Washington.

THIS YEAR: Has five tackles and a fumble recovery in limited playing time. Dropped Seneca Wallace last week for his first sack as an Eagle.

MOST FAMOUS PERSON HE'S EVER MET: Michael Jordan, at a restaurant in D.C. "It was right around when he was about to give up basketball."

FAMOUS PERSON HE'D LIKED TO HAVE MET: Dr. Martin Luther King. "The first question I would ask him is what influenced him to try to change things. How was he able to take so much ridicule and criticism and continue with the civil-rights movement?"

ONE ATHLETE HE'D PAY TO WATCH: Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones.

FAVORITE THING ABOUT PHILADELPHIA: The team. "I've never been on a team where everybody stuck together like they do here. It's very rare. The coaches actually keep us together. It's special here, different than other places I've been."

FAVORITE INDIVIDUAL ATHLETIC MOMENT: Bringing down Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger in 2004 for his first NFL sack. "I beat Marvel [Smith] right around the corner and I was right on his back. To do something like that on the second play of your NFL career was amazing."

FAVORITE TEAM ATHLETIC MOMENT: Winning the Southeastern Conference championship in 2002 with Georgia. "We were the first Georgia team to win it since Herschel Walker's team in 1982."