After Brandon Brooks announced that he had torn his Achilles tendon earlier this week, discussions were ripe surrounding potential replacements. Brooks has proven he’s a borderline superhuman, but suffering the injury in June makes a heroic comeback for the upcoming season unrealistic. Replacing an elite guard certainly isn’t easy, but after Doug Pederson stated he’d be looking in-house first, some natural concern arose.
Matt Pryor, someone who saw prominent action in just three games last year, is the team’s current backup guard and a former sixth-round pick in the 2018 draft. He graded 18th out of 25 guards according to PFF in the wildcard round last year, his first start, and had played in a little over 70 snaps over the course of the season that preceded that game, performing adequately.