EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Darren Sproles has been doing this a long time, which is how you get to be the only player in NFL history with more than 15 rushing touchdowns (18), more than 25 receiving touchdowns (27) and more than five punt-return touchdowns (six).
Sproles is 32 now, still just 5-6, 190. Little guys who depend on speed and shiftiness have no business running around out there at age 32, darting up the left sideline, making at least four tacklers miss - I counted Kellen Davis, then a guy whose number I couldn't read, then Bilal Powell, a partially blocked Tommy Bohanon, and long snapper Tanner Purdum - en route to an 89-yard punt-return touchdown that might have been the key play of the Eagles' 24-17 victory yesterday over the New York Jets.