There are no direct flights from Davenport, Iowa, to Philadelphia and, very obviously, there isn't a straight route for Julian Vandervelde to find a permanent landing spot in the NFL, either.
Vandervelde, a guard/center who was selected in the fifth round of the 2011 draft, has been waived or released by the Eagles five times. Of course, he also has been re-signed by the Eagles another five times, including Tuesday when the injury to offensive lineman Andrew Gardner ended Vandervelde's most recent hiatus, which had lasted exactly one week.
With the exception of an unhappy month in 2012 when he was claimed off waivers by Tampa Bay, then released, then signed to Tampa's practice squad, then released from that, all of Vandervelde's career transactions have been with the Eagles.