Adam Zaruba “got some reps in and learned a lot” in his first day on the field at Eagles training camp, Zaruba said Friday.
Learning a lot barely moved the needle, though, for the longest of the longshot hopefuls on the team’s 90-man roster.
Zaruba, 26, is a Canadian rugby star — calm down, that’s rugby star, not firefighter — who last played football in high school, in North Vancouver, British Columbia. But he’s 6-foot-5, 265 pounds. He shows great hands in his rugby highlight tape, and he ran a 4.62-second 40-yard dash when the Eagles tried him out.