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The Eagles on Wednesday evening made a roster move, promoting Tre Sullivan from the practice squad and waiving DT T.Y. McGill with a failed physical designation.
The Eagles just claimed McGill but his time with the Eagles comes to an almost immediate end.
While the Eagles will now be short again at defensive tackle at least they’ll have some more safety depth.
They were about to enter this game with Malcolm Jenkins, Avonte Maddox, Deiondre’ Hall and Rasul Douglas as their full complement of players able to fill in at safety. At least Sullivan gives them another option as Corey Graham will miss this game with a hamstring injury.
Sullivan was a rookie last season and spent that year on the practice squad. He made the 53-man roster out of training camp and played in the season opener, but was cut and sent to the practice squad to create a spot for Hall.
At least the Eagles are 1-0 with Sullivan on the roster this year.
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LeSean McCoy had little to say about trade rumors involving his possible returning to the Eagles, but he did manage to get in a dig at Chip Kelly during his chat with writers covering the Bills Wednesday.
“I shouldn’t have gotten traded, anyway,” he said. “I was killing stuff.”
Kelly, two months after replacing Howie Roseman as the Eagles’ general manager, traded McCoy to the Bills for linebacker Kiko Alonso, who had played for him at Oregon.
In just six seasons with the Eagles, McCoy became the franchise’s all-time leading rusher with 6,792 yards. He’s rushed for 3,470 yards in four seasons with the Bills.
According to a published report out of Buffalo earlier this week, the Eagles contacted the Bills after they learned they had lost running back Jay Ajayi for the season with a knee injury.
The proposed trade is unlikely to happen — here’s my story explaining why — but McCoy was asked numerous times about the rumors on Wednesday.
“I don’t worry about it,” he said in an interview posted on the Bills’ website. “I just stay focused on the job at hand. I let that stuff work itself out. We’ll see what happens. That’s for the guys upstairs to work that out.”
McCoy is four years removed from Philly now and has only eight former teammates still on the roster. He told writers covering the Bills at the team complex in Orchard Park, N.Y. that he hasn’t really followed the Eagles’ running back situation.
“To be honest, I haven’t paid too much attention to it,” he said. “You know how it is. You worry about your team, you worry about yourself, I try not to lose sleep (about it).”
Bills head coach Sean McDermott, an assistant coach with the Eagles under Andy Reid from 1999 through 2010, declined to discuss the situation, other than to say the Bills get calls all the time — like every team — about all sorts of players.
“LeSean’s one of our better players,” McDermott said. “He had a good game the other day. We get calls all the time, incoming calls happen all the time, and (general manager Billy Beane) and I talk a lot and I won’t go into any more detail than that.
“(McCoy) is a valuable member of our football team, and I’ll leave it at that.”
McCoy, 30, netted 13,470 yards from scrimmage through last year, the eighth-most in NFL history by a running back in his 20s behind six Hall of Famers and Edgerrin James.
He now ranks 25th in NFL history with 13,704 yards from scrimmage, but he’s only 2,589 yards out of the all-time top 10.
McCoy, 30 rushed for a season-high 85 yards Sunday in the Bills’ win over the Titans. The Bills are 2-3 going into a game Sunday against the Texans in Houston.
“I just stay focused,” he said. “I don’t pay attention to it too much. Trade stuff and everything else.
“This week we got the Texans. They’ve got a good defense, a lot of good guys on that defensive line, so I got my hands full.”
On this edition of Eagle Eye, Derrick Gunn and Barrett Brooks discuss if the Eagles should acquire a running back following the Jay Ajayi injury.
What happened to the Eagles’ offensive line after they were so dominant last year?
What are the keys to beating the Giants? And fans need to stop piling on Jalen Mills.
1:00 – Eagles need to take care of the intangibles.
5:00 – Must run the ball more against the Giants.
8:00 – Should the Eagles acquire a running back?
13:00 – What has happened to the offensive line?
16:00 – Previewing the Giants game.
23:00 – Fans need to stop piling on Jalen Mills.
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