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Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesBleeding Green Nation homepageHorizontal - WhiteBleeding Green Nationa Philadelphia Eagles communityFollow Bleeding Green Nation online:Follow Bleeding Green Nation on TwitterFollow Bleeding Green Nation on FacebookLog in or sign upLog InSign UpSite searchSearchSearchBleeding Green Nation main menuFanpostsFanshotsEaglesOddsAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 321 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Eagles StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Eagles NewsYahoo Eagles Team PageYahoo Eagles ReportYahoo Eagles Depth ChartYahoo Eagles TransactionsYahoo Eagles PhotosOdds About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub ✕Eagles Training Camp Practice Notes: Cody Kessler review Philadelphia Eagles Jerseys 2019 , JJ Arcega-Whiteside flashes, and moreNew,27commentsHere’s what we learned today.EDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:Eagles Training Camp Practice Notes: Cody Kessler review, JJ Arcega-Whiteside flashes, and moreTwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailPhoto by Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesToday marked the twelfth 2019 Philadelphia Eagles training camp practice. It was the team’s first practice since playing a preseason game on Thursday night. Read on to see what I observed!PRACTICE NOTES• CARSON WENTZ UPDATE: Not Wentz’s best day. But it was hardly all bad. Let’s start with the negative. Wentz got off to a rough start in 11-on-11 by throwing a pass meant for DeSean Jackson that was knocked down by Malcolm Jenkins. Then he threw a pick-six on a quick screen attempt with Nathan Gerry recognizing the play call and jumping in front of the receiver. (Gerry’s brain is part of why the coaching staff likes him.) Wentz threw another pick. Wentz made a throw to Zach Ertz that was a little too far out in front. Wentz also overthrew a deep crosser meant for DeSean. Wentz got picked off by Jenkins during a 3-on-3 drill. Now for the good. Wentz was pretty sharp in the intermediate game. The fourth-year quarterback hit Nelson Agholor, Alshon Jeffery, and DeSean multiple times over the middle for 15ish yard gains. Wentz threaded another ball JUST out of harm’s way to Ertz, perfect throw. During 11-on-11 in the red zone, Wentz completed a ball to Jackson on a quick out for a touchdown. One of Wentz’s best throws was a ball to JJ Arcege-Whiteside along the sideline that allowed the rookie receiver to go up and make a play. Wentz put it high enough so that the leaping defender couldn’t get it and JJ lived up to his end of the bargain by catching it. • EAGLES INJURY UPDATES: Too many updates to cover here so I put them all in a separate post. [Go read that].• The Eagles’ first team units saw a majority of the reps today after not playing in the first preseason game. It’s clear the Eagles are fine with not playing their starters in the preseason because they feel like the training camp reps are good enough. • Cody Kessler obviously saw an increase in reps with Nate Sudfeld out. Kessler had his ups and downs. Case in point: there was a drive where he 1) threw a good ball to Arcega-Whiteside on a comeback, 2) overthrew a target way too high and out of bounds towards the sideline, 3) came back with another good throw to JJ, 4) and then missed with another bad overthrow. Kessler also got picked off by Johnathan Cyprien in 3-on-3. • Today might’ve been Arcega-Whiteside’s best practice of the summer. He made a number of good catches, as I’ve already written about to this point. • Derek Barnett returned to 11-on-11 today, which is a good development for the Eagles. Barnett did a good job of using his bend to beat Jordan Mailata in 1-on-1. • Mailata was getting reps at first team right tackle with Lane Johnson missing practice. • Joshua Perkins was taking some first team tight ends in 12 personnel since Dallas Goedert and Richard Rodgers weren’t practicing. After practice, Doug Pederson referred to Perkins as “Perk” when asked about the tight end position. It’s typically a good sign for a player’s stock when the coaching staff has a nickname for them like that (#NicknameAnalytics). It’s not impossible the Eagles could keep four tight ends on the 53. None of their current rostered tight ends are practice squad eligible. • Shareef Miller had a nice pass deflection on a Kessler screen throw. The rookie pass rusher has been coming on a little bit. • Clayton Thorson didn’t see very many reps today. And even when he did get in there, the Eagles weren’t throwing much. • Daily practice note: Stefen Wisniewski is still struggling with bad snaps.• Jake Elliott missed a kick from far out. Came up short. Couldn’t tell the distance from the poor angle I had. • New Eagles defensive end Eli Harold is wearing the No. 59 jersey. Better number for a linebacker than a defensive end. #JerseyNumberAnalytics. • Brandon Graham was running around the practice field and juking his daughter after practice. Pretty cute. Also, this happened: • BGN reader shoutout section: I had the pleasure of meeting Rob G. (The Man Al Swearengen) at practice today. Go check out his FanPost! UP NEXTThe Eagles will be back at practice on Sunday morning starting at 9:15 AM ET. Stay tuned to BGN for more coverage Mens Andre Dillard Jersey , as always. Optionality, but in a bad way"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Eagles StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Eagles NewsYahoo Eagles Team PageYahoo Eagles ReportYahoo Eagles Depth ChartYahoo Eagles TransactionsYahoo Eagles PhotosOdds About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub ✕NFL Draft5 bold predictions for the 2019 NFL DraftNew,48commentsOptionality, but in a bad wayEDTShareTweetShareShare5 bold predictions for the 2019 NFL DraftKirby Lee-USA TODAY SportsWe are hours away from the start of the 2019 NFL Draft. Franchises will be altered, and many prognostications will not come true. So let’s make a few that probably won’t, but would impressive if they did.The Cardinals will not trade back and not take Kyler MurrayOn the surface this may not seem that bold, but I’m calling it bold because it’s the worst option available to them. Taking Murray would be bold in a sense, because taking a QB in the 1st round in back to back drafts has only happened twice since the merger, and even those were unique situations.The Colts took QBs in the 1st round back to back in 1982 and 1983, but that was because Art Schlichter, taken 4th overall in 1982, was suspended for the 1983 season for gambling as he was well on his way to being an all time bust. In 1983 they took John Elway 1st overall, knowing the whole time that Elway refused to play for them.In 1989 the Cowboys took Troy Aikman 1st overall, then also drafted Steve Walsh, who was Jimmy Johnson’s QB in college, with a 1st round pick in the supplemental draft, which turned out to cost them the #1 overall pick in 1990.But it wouldn’t be unexpected if the Cardinals drafted Murray Youth Andre Dillard Jersey , because since Kliff Kingsbury, who said that if he had the first pick in the draft he would take Murray was hired, it’s been widely speculated. And while there is still time for Josh Rosen to show he’s not a bust, the Cardinals have far more information about him than anyone else. There are success stories for QBs who were as bad as Rosen was in his rookie year, but there are many more who weren’t because they stink. If the Cardinals, for all their faults, know that Rosen is a bust, then it’s justifiable to draft Murray.But if they don’t decide to draft Murray, the best option would be to trade back with a team that wants to. The Cardinals were both bad and old last year, more players 30 or over (6) than players 25 or younger (5) started at least 8 games for them last year. One non-QB isn’t turning this team around.Which makes the worst option sitting still and taking a non-QB. It’s what the Giants did last year and they’re no better off in the long run for it.The Giants trade up for a QBSpeaking of the Giants, they might take a QB. They might not. They should, and, assuming for a moment that the Cardinals are not drafting Kyler Murray, with no team ahead of them in such bad shape at QB, they should be the most appealing team to trade back with. The Giants would have to compete with any other team looking to trade up, but asking a team to move from a top 5 pick to the 6th pick is an easier sell than say, the Broncos at 10 or Dolphins at 13 Cheap Andre Dillard Jersey , and the Giants have 12 picks at their disposal, including a pair of 1st rounders.Dave Gettleman’s response to why he traded up this year when he was sitting at #2 last year will be cringeworthy, but it’ll also be entertaining.The clock runs out for someone, and it’s the Raiders faultThe Raiders draft room is apparently just going to be Jon Gruden and Mike Mayock. Well, it’ll be more than that, but they sent home a good portion of their staff, which is entirely defensible but also notable because their GM has never run a draft and the head coach can veto him. They’ve got the ingredients for confusion, which is what it takes for a team to not turn in their pick on time. In 2003 the Vikings were talking to three teams about a trade. When they thought settled on one, with the Ravens, and they informed the league with seconds to spare, but the Ravens hadn’t talked to anyone. No trade was consummated, and in the confusion the Jaguars, the next team on the clock, quickly made their pick and took the guy the Ravens were trying to trade for. In 2016 the Ravens were on the other end, believing they had a trade agreed to when they did not, and they got skipped over.If that’s going to happen again this year, it seems a good bet that the Raiders are going to be involved. They have three 1st round picks Andre Dillard Philadelphia Eagles Jerseys , which gives them quite a few chances to either have their own time run out or cause someone else’s time to run out while finalizing a trade.Kyler Murray is Aaron RodgersNot Aaron Rodgers the player. Aaron Rodgers the draft pick. The 2005 draft infamously saw Rodgers spend nearly the entire 1st round waiting in the green room as team after team passed over him. It apparently and unsurprisingly stuck with Rodgers and he allegedly harbored a grudge against Mike McCarthy, who was the 49ers offensive coordinator that season and played a large role in the team taking Alex Smith over Rodgers.Find a mock draft and there’s a pretty good chance it has Murray going first overall. But it’s not even clear the Cardinals are going to take him, and between the Cardinals and the back half of the draft are a bunch of teams that shouldn’t but could realistically pass on a QB. The past 4 drafts have seen at least two QBs go in the top 10 picks, and the last 3 have had at least two teams trade up in or into the top 10 to get a QB. Eventually that cycle has to end, and it could end with no QBs taken high.The Eagles do not draft a defensive lineman in the 1stKeeping it local, the Eagles are widely expected to take a defensive lineman on Thursday. It’s both a long term need, particularly at end but a tackle will do as well, and the draft is stocked with them. But no draft ever goes as planned. The Eagles have two routes to go to fulfill this prediction: they can trade out of the 1st round, but they did that last year and already armed with two second round picks, it would be a lame cop out. The bolder choice would be to sit tight (or even bolder, trade up) and grab a wide receiver, safety or offensive lineman. Or they could make us all look stupid and take a cornerback. And just for fun….In a repeat of last year’s draft, Jason Witten retires in the middle of it.