EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - One of Chip Kelly's favorite lines is that if you're not a top-tier player, there are three ways to make his football team - special teams, special teams and special teams.
Ed Reynolds understood the importance of being a special-teams contributor long before the Eagles selected the safety from Stanford in the fifth round of the 2014 draft.
His father, Ed, played in the NFL for 10 years as a linebacker with the Patriots and Giants. Only three of those 10 seasons were spent as a starter. During the other seven, he mainly earned his keep as a special-teams player.