Tight end Dallas Goedert, the Eagles' top draft pick this season and the team's most prominent rookie, will begin his NFL career Thursday night at a sold-out Lincoln Financial Field, in front of the largest crowd to ever watch him play and a national NBC Football Night in America audience.
"Playing Thursday, the first game of the NFL season, prime time, that's a dream come true," Goedert said this week. "That's when you want to be playing. Really excited … We played some big games in college [at South Dakota State], but nothing to the extent of this.