As the Eagles take their physicals on Monday at the NovaCare Complex and prepare for a three-day minicamp that wraps up what has been a whirlwind offseason, Pederson is focused on the big picture for the football team, one that needs players to push each other at every position.
"It's important that you have that across the board," he said. "That's how you build depth and that's how players get better."
So what are the positions that merit some real scrutiny? We know that, for example, Sam Bradford has enjoyed an offseason productive enough for Pederson to say the other day that Bradford has distanced himself from the quarterback pack.