It ain’t preseason football if you ain’t watching a gigantic Australian science experiment stonewall backups you’ve never heard of.
With a roster mostly established coming into the 2019 NFL season, the Eagles aren’t the league’s most thrilling preseason watch. But I was interested in Jordan Mailata and Andre Dillard, the last pick from the 2018 draft and the first pick from the 2019 one, both elbow-jousting for spots on the Eagles’ tackle depth chart. Started at RT and LT respectively, they got the call over veteran Halapoulivaati Vaitai and higher-drafted Matt Pryor, giving the first glimpse of what could be the Eagles’ starting bookends in 2024.