The Philadelphia Eagles formally introduced seven workforce captains for the 2024 NFL season. Nick Sirianni sometimes permits gamers to vote for their very own captains versus the teaching workers selecting them.
2024 Eagles captains
The next gamers will put on ‘C’ patches on their uniforms this 12 months:
QB Jalen Hurts
WR A.J. Brown
OT Lane Johnson
OT Jordan Mailata
DE Brandon Graham
CB Darius Slay
Okay Jake Elliott
OBSERVATIONS AND THOUGHTS
This is similar captains checklist as final 12 months … minus retirees Jason Kelce and Fletcher Cox … and minus DeVonta Smith for some cause … and plus Jordan Mailata.
Appears a bit bizarre that Smitty was a captain final 12 months however not this 12 months. What provides? It’s not like he’s not a long-term fixture right here after signing a contract extension this offseason.
Permit me to take a victory lap on one thing I wrote presently final 12 months: “There appears to be some sentiment that the Eagles can’t probably maintain each Brown and Smith sooner or later, which is one thing that shouldn’t even be fearful about proper now. However I don’t suppose that’s true. And I anticipate the Eagles to maintain each so long as attainable so long as they’re producing.”
Cool to see Mailata acknowledged as a frontrunner. He’s beforehand talked about striving for captaincy.
Hurts is coming into his fourth straight 12 months as a workforce captain. He’ll have 4 gold stars underneath his ‘C’ patch. However the ‘C” will nonetheless be white this 12 months. Assuming he’s a captain once more subsequent 12 months, that’s when it’ll go gold.
Graham is the one Eagles captain who’ll have the gold ‘C’ since that is his sixth (and last) 12 months:
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Three-star membership: Johnson, Elliott, and Slay.
Two-star membership: Brown.
Skilled veterans who had been notably not named captains (apart from DeVonta): Josh Sweat, Dallas Goedert, Saquon Barkley, C.J. Gardner-Johnson.
Some potential future captain candidates embrace: DeVonta (once more), Jalen Carter, Landon Dickerson, Cam Jurgens, Nakobe Dean.
