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Why Cowboys’ Dak Prescott among NFL’s most overrated QBs, plus what to expect from Steelers’ new-look offense – CBS Sports
Quarterbacks drive the NFL conversation. But which ones might be getting a bit too much hype these days? And which ones deserve even more love than they get? We identified some of the league’s most overrated (and underrated) quarterbacks ahead of 2025 training camp, and a couple of NFC East stars landed on opposite ends of the rundown: Overrated: Dak Prescott (Cowboys) — It’s not that Prescott is bad. He really isn’t. You don’t last nearly a decade as the Dallas Cowboys’ starter, with seven playoff appearances, by accident. But that Cowboys brand magnifies everything, and the simple truth is that Prescott is the latest face of an organization that’s routinely failed to make deep-playoff noise out of the NFC. He’s regularly considered among the NFL’s top 10 or so starters, he’s survived multiple coaching changes and he’s repeatedly landed lucrative extensions in Dallas. He’s also struggled to stay healthy and/or control the ball in three of his last five seasons, and he enters Year 10 with just two postseason victories to his name. Underrated: Jalen Hurts (Eagles) — Wait, really? The reigning Super Bowl MVP is underrated? It sure seems like it. You won’t find anyone who puts up a fight when you mention Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen in lists of elite quarterbacks. Throw Hurts’ name in there, however, and all of a sudden you’re clawing for your life. But since when did gaudy stats and pretty highlights mean more than, you know, winning games that matter? Hurts played more of a background role in the Philadelphia Eagles’ historic Super Bowl LIX run, but too many people forget he’s now given two championship-caliber performances at that stage. And he’s still just 26! He may not be flawless, but he’s close to inevitable.

CBS Sports lists Dak Prescott as most overrated QB – Blogging The Boys
Nevertheless, Hurts deserves extra credit because he’s won a lot while playing for one of the more stable franchises of the past decade, while Prescott gets dinged for being one of several quarterbacks to be hampered by an organization that continually underperforms. It makes sense, if you don’t think about it. [BLG Note: Cowboys fans love to act like Dak, who has one of the weakest playoff resumes EVER, is so much better than he really is.]

Ranking all 32 teams quarterback outlook for the next 5 years – Windy City Gridiron
7. Philadelphia Eagles- Jalen Hurts (26): Super Bowl Champion Jalen Hurts could easily be in the top five. He had an efficient season, and there’s no reason to think he won’t continue to be. Most importantly for Hurts, the roster around him is loaded, and Howie Roseman will continue to stack the roster around him moving forward. […] 19. Dallas Cowboys- Dak Prescott (31). Age certainly plays into these rankings, and Prescott is the highest-ranked quarterback who is currently in his 30s. Is Dak Prescott still going to be a quality quarterback in his mid-30s? I know Prescott has had up and down seasons, but as a QB who turns 32 in July, is coming off an injury, and a down season, I don’t trust him to be the QB he was a couple of years ago.

Cooper DeJean is everywhere, and is apparently great at everything – BGN
Cooper DeJean won a Super Bowl his rookie year, nabbed his first NFL career pick-6 against Patrick Mahomes, and hoisted The Lombardi Trophy on his birthday — and he hasn’t sat down since. DeJean soaked in every moment of the Eagles Championship parade, released his own podcast with teammate Reed Blankenship, and has been at nearly every charity event put on this offseason. Not only has he showed up for his teammates, the team, and the community, he’s also pretty much dominated every single event that was sport-based.

Brandon Graham reveals his advice for the ‘25 Eagles – Audacy
“Man, you got to have a cut off soon,” Graham said this week on the 94WIP Afternoon Show with Ike, Spike & Fritz. “Make sure your workouts are still, you know you’re still working out and you’re not just taking meetings and taking all of these different things that take you away from ball because of what you did the year before. Because as soon as this year come up and we not going like we need to go, it’s going to be all that, ‘Super Bowl hangover.’

Eagles 2025 most important list: Cam Jurgens – NBCSP
It took just one season. The Eagles had seen enough. After waiting his turn for a couple years, Cam Jurgens finally replaced the legendary Jason Kelce as the Eagles’ center in 2025 and had a Pro Bowl season. He was rewarded this offseason with a contract extension that will keep him in Philly through 2029. It’s nice when a plan works out. Jurgens’ four-year extension takes hold in 2026 and will pay him $68 million with $39 million guaranteed. That makes him the second-highest paid center in the NFL (at $17 million per season) behind just Kansas City’s Creed Humphrey. “It feels kind of surreal,” Jurgens said after the deal became official. “I’ve been playing football for as long as I can remember and getting to a point like this, I mean, this is life changing. It’s just crazy. I feel like I’ve been working at it for a while. Since I got drafted here, I guess I’ve been working towards this point and now that I’m finally here, I’m just so thrilled that I got lucky enough to get drafted here and now getting this deal done, I feel secure that I’m going to be here for a long time. It’s wild to think that I’m finally here. You know, it’s crazy.”

The best NFL draft pick ever at every slot from No. 1 to 262 – ESPN
88. Nick Foles, QB (2012). In the extremely imprecise science of picking the best player at a draft slot, measuring Foles’ super weird career against Danielle Hunter’s quiet, steady excellence was quite the challenge. Foles didn’t just win a Super Bowl (and MVP) for the Eagles — their first in franchise history. He also tied for the records for passing touchdowns in a game (seven) and consecutive completions (25). That feels good enough to me! 89. Terrell Owens, WR (1996). A five-time first-team All-Pro, Owens is only better known for his great touchdown celebrations than his production (153 touchdown receptions, No. 3 all-time). Owens only ever got to play in one Super Bowl, delivering one of the gutsiest performances of modern NFL history in the loss — but the personal accolades are more than enough.

Eagles 2025 Training Camp Position Preview: Wide Receiver – PE.com
Before A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith, no combination of Eagles wide receivers had each amassed 1,000 yards in a single season. Brown and Smith have done it twice in three seasons together.

The Washington Commanders will reveal new alternate helmet and uniform next week – Hogs Haven
There have been rumors and reports about new uniforms for the Washington Commanders, and managing partner Josh Harris hinted at them in February. A new report this morning said the team would be debuting a new alternate helmet and uniform on July 9th. The Commanders have now confirmed that report, and posted a silhouette of a player with the team’s W logo visible on the helmet and in the bottom left of the picture.

Where does Giants’ defensive coordinator Shane Bowen rank among his peers? – Big Blue View
There has been a great deal of discussion this offseason about whether Shane Bowen is the right defensive coordinator to take full advantage of the personnel upgrades the New York Giants made on that side of the ball this offseason. Pro Football and Sports Network has weighed in on how it ranks Bowen in relation to his peers, and it’s not great. PFSN has Bowen, entering his second season with the Giants, ranked No. 23 among defensive coordinators.

T.J. Watt AND the Steelers are both being dumb as hell – SB Nation
This offseason we’ve seen something from the Pittsburgh Steelers which hasn’t been a factor in their planning for decades: Desperation. With the writing seemingly on the wall for GM Omar Khan and head coach Mike Tomlin the team has been furiously, frantically, and often nonsensically trying to find ways to improve. One player left in the cold by all this change is edge rusher T.J. Watt, and the pass rusher has had enough. Watt has been unhappy entering the final year of a four-year extension signed in 2021, which is set to pay him $21.05 million in 2025. At the time it was a big contract but has since been dwarfed by other pass rushers in the market like Myles Garrett, Danielle Hunter, and Maxx Crosby.