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2024 NFL trade deadline: Eight big-name moves that need to happen after Bills, Jets make WR splashes – CBS Sports
Von Miller to the Philadelphia Eagles. Potential compensation: Conditional 2025 third-round pick. The Eagles got a conditional 2026 third for Haason Reddick prior to the season, but their prized offseason edge addition, Bryce Huff, has yet to pop. And while general manager Howie Roseman has been burned by in-season bets on aging veterans before, Miller has a history with new defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, earning his last Pro Bowl nod under the coach with the Denver Broncos. Suspended through Week 8, he’d make for a last-gasp effort to inject the Eagles’ hit-or-miss pass rush with life.

NFL trade deadline 2024: Player and draft pick team offers – ESPN+
Eagles add injury insurance at TEBengals get: 2026 sixth-round pick. Eagles get: TE Tanner Hudson, 2026 seventh-round pickHudson was quietly an efficient part of the Bengals’ offense down the stretch last season, averaging 1.6 yards per route run while catching 22 of his 39 receptions from quarterback Jake Browning, who was filling in for injured Joe Burrow. I wondered if Hudson might be able to sustain that role with Burrow returning, but Cincinnati signed Mike Gesicki and has received solid play from rookie fourth-rounder Erick All, which has buried Hudson on the depth chart. He has played only 13 offensive snaps in 2024. Twenty-nine-year-old tight ends with limited track records of production aren’t going to transform an offense, but Hudson could be a reliable pair of hands in an offense that uses multi-tight end sets. The Eagles were using 12 personnel on a league-high 33.6% of their snaps before Dallas Goedert went down because of a hamstring injury Sunday, which is expected to cost him time. Philly has opened up Albert Okwuegbunam’s window to return from injured reserve, but the former Broncos tight end hasn’t been able to stay on the field as a pro; he has played in 12 games since the start of the 2022 season. Hudson might be a way for the Eagles to survive a month without their top tight end.

Eagles rookie storylines for the Giants game feature Quinyon Mitchell vs. Malik Nabers – BGN
The looming Quinyon Mitchell showdown with Malik Nabers. It’s very likely we get a direct match up between two first round rookies in this game. Malik Nabers is trending towards playing the Eagles. That is good news for the Giants considering how immediately kick-ass Nabers has been for New York. Even if he’s still nursing an injury, he is their best option in the passing game. Quinyon Mitchell has gone toe to toe with some truly excellent receivers, but Nabers might be the best one yet. If Mitchell can lock him down, the Eagles win. Simple as that. Also, calling my shot … this is the week Mitchell snags interception number one … unless someone runs into him again.

Eagles’ Jack Stoll excited to face Giants after getting ‘smacked in the mouth’ in New York – Inquirer
Stoll, 26, admitted that he never should have left in the first place. He was a restricted free agent in the offseason and the Eagles ultimately did not tender him (the lowest-value tender in 2024 was $2.99 million). In turn, Stoll became an unrestricted free agent and signed a one-year, $1.11 million contract with the Giants. However, he expressed in retrospect that he thought the Eagles eventually would have offered him a deal. “Not getting too deep into it, but it was one of those, kind of, ‘We’ll see what happens,’ and then I think I ended up taking it the wrong way, as if they didn’t want me,” Stoll said. “Which I think they would’ve ended up doing it. “And I’ll say this: one thing is Howie [Roseman]’s always been truthful to me. He’s always shot it straight with me. So that’s another thing I probably took for granted, is just having someone like that who is honest. I started looking into a little bit of the wrong things, and it was probably a little bit [more] of an emotional decision than what it should’ve been.”

Game Preview: Eagles vs. Giants – PE.com
5. Eagles front four heating up. The Eagles registered five quarterback sacks in the win over Cleveland. They pressured the pocket throughout the game, gaining 10 hits on quarterback Deshaun Watson. In this game, they play a Giants team missing left tackle Andrew Thomas and they face an offensive attack that has quarterback Daniel Jones at the helm. He is a multi-purpose threat, a danger to run, and that is something Defensive Coordinator Vic Fangio is very much aware is a challenge. “They really ran him a pretty good bit in this past game (11 carries, 56 yards against Bengals in a 17-7 loss) with quarterback-designed runs,” Fangio said. “He pulls it and keeps it on the zone-read stuff more than most quarterbacks. Very athletic, very fast. He’s a tough assignment with his movement and his arm strength. They are throwing the RPOs more than they have in the past … so, I think their offense is definitely a lot better than it was last year, and it’s going to be a tough assignment up there.” New York is averaging 16 points per game this season and the Giants welcome back running back Devin Singletary after he missed time. Singletary and rookie Tyrone Tracy share the ground load in the backfield.

Reacts poll results: Giants fans want to see Evan Neal at right tackle – Big Blue View
Personally, I was expecting this to be more split down the middle or even flipped. For his part, Barkley doesn’t think expect a warm welcome, but he also doesn’t think that he’ll be booed in his return, saying, “I don’t expect a great reaction. I don’t expect to be booed. I look at it like this, the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Football Giants probably played in over 200 games. This rivalry was there before me, and it’s going to be there after me.” Barkley has a point regarding the rivalry. However, fans are seldom rational and can hold grudges. I suspect that if he has a good game at the Giants’ expense, he could get one of those famous Bronx Cheers by the end of the game. Meanwhile, Giants’ fans have had their confidence shaken (a bit) by the team’s performance against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Despite the loss to Baltimore, maintaining optimism for Commanders fans is super easy— it’s barely an inconvenience – Hogs Haven
With 32 fan bases filling out weekly Reacts confidence surveys for several years now, it’s clear that those fan bases react — and often over-react — to wins and losses, with confidence rising after wins and falling after losses. I was prepared, with the Commanders breaking their 4-game winning streak with a loss to the Ravens last Sunday, to see the confidence number this week fall precipitously. Instead, it held very steady, dropping only a single percentage point from 99% in Week 6 to 98% this week, returning to the level of Week 5 and staying above 90% for the 5th consecutive week (and 6th out of the full 7 weeks of the survey).

5 questions and answers surrounding the Cowboys’ short- and long-term future – Blogging The Boys
Howman: One internal change is to go back to what they doing before Week 6 in terms of the running back rotation. Rico Dowdle had been picking up steam and it paid off with a career night against the Steelers. Then Ezekiel Elliott’s role in the offense becomes a talking point and he magically gets more carries than Dowdle. He was also wildly inefficient versus Detroit while Dowdle led the team in rushing despite having less touches. Go back to what’s working, which is not Zeke. Holleran: I’ll echo what David said and even go a step further. It’s time to cut bait with Ezekiel Elliott. There’s no doubt Zeke’s name will forever live on as one of Dallas’ best running backs, but there’s just no fuel left in the tank at this point. Every offensive snap given to Elliott seems like a wasted play, and it’s not plausible to continue to give him chances. Whether it’s giving his snaps to Hunter Luepke or promoting Dalvin Cook, something has to give here soon.

Caleb Williams might already be the best Bears QB ever – SB Nation
If you listened to draft experts over the past few years, then you may have assumed that this moment was inevitable: Caleb Williams is playing at a high level early in his career and has led his team to three straight wins. And not just any team, but the Chicago Bears, a franchise that has never had a 4,000-yard passer, a 30-touchdown season, or a real franchise quarterback. So in that sense, Caleb Williams is doing what he’s expected to do as the first overall pick in the draft. But in another sense, if you had listened to draft experts in the past, you might have assumed that Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields, Trey Lance, Zach Wilson, Bryce Young, and Mac Jones would have taken over the NFL long before Williams. If No. 1 overall picks consistently led their teams to the Super Bowl, we wouldn’t have such a long and consistent history of few No. 1 picks ever living up to expectations.

2025 NFL Draft: Top 25 Senior Bowl prospects at midway point of college football season – NFL.com
10) Abdul Carter, Edge/LB, Penn State (6-3, 252)*. Carter’s game is a cross between those of former Penn State first-round defenders Micah Parsons and Chop Robinson. He played off the ball early in his career, attacking plays from sideline to sideline and ripping into the backfield on blitzes, much like Parsons did while in Happy Valley. Nittany Lions coaches moved him to the edge to replace Robinson this season, where Carter uses his speed to win outside and shows surprising power to push lesser tackles into the backfield.