For eleven seasons, all of them in Philadelphia Eagles green, Brent Celek gave his team’s fans and coaches reason after reason to fall in love with him. Eleven seasons translates into 175 games played, making him second to only Brian Dawkins and Harold Carmichael in that category.
It also means he went to being one of the focal points of the team’s offense to being an elder statesman and a mentor to the likes of some of the young guys, Zach Ertz for instance.
Celek shared the field and Philly’s locker room with a ton of teammates, and on the final day of August, just one day after Philly’s final preseason game (10-9 victory over the New York Jets), the Eagles and the organization that made him the 162nd-overall selection of the 2007 NFL Draft took some time to reminisce and say thank you.