Phire Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 Jeffery Smith Agholor Hollins ??? Treggs, Johnson, Shelton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockey5djh Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 History would say Gibson. Production should say Treggs or Johnson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltman Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 If Johnson is truly as good beat writers say him, but right now I'd say Treggs Treggs does sp. teams right? I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 1. Alshonn Jeffery 2. Torrey Smith 3. Mack Hollins 4. Nelson Agholor 5. Bryce Treggs 6. Unsure, maybe no one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nlesthought Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 No specific order: Jeffrey/ Hollins/ Johnson (if he comes back healthy) Smith/ Treggs Agholor/ The slot will have Agholor/Ertz/ Pump/Burton who can all create different matchups. Johnson will possibly have to play some ST this preseason to show he can be on the 53. Otherwise it could fall to the next (Ward/Gibson) Treggs/Ward/Gibson need to start catching punts/kicks to solidify a spot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealMcCoy Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 2 hours ago, Danger said: 1. Alshonn Jeffery 2. Torrey Smith 3. Mack Hollins 4. Nelson Agholor 5. Bryce Treggs 6. Unsure, maybe no one Marcus Johnson is already considered a lock. He's been the one replacing Alshon Jeffery in practices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealMcCoy Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 3 hours ago, Kiltman said: If Johnson is truly as good beat writers say him, but right now I'd say Treggs Treggs does sp. teams right? I Johnson was a lock to make it before we traded Matthews. This doesn't change anything for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealMcCoy Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 Stop bringing up Johnson's name. He has had his spot locked up already. This move opens a spot for Gibson, Treggs or Ward to make the team. Treggs has had probably the most consistent training camp and was the best of the bunch in the first preseason game, so he's in the lead. Greg Ward and Shelton Gibson are probably gonna have to go to the practice squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phire Posted August 11, 2017 Author Share Posted August 11, 2017 @TheRealMcCoy are you thinking we were planning on keeping six active WRs on the 53? Last year we had five, IIRC. So with Matthews it would have been: 1. Alshon 2. Smith 3. Matthews 4. Agholor 5. Hollins I don't see how Johnson was a lock unless we operate under the assumption we'd keep an extra WR that we didn't last year. I don't know if we do at this point but again, Doug had five last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealMcCoy Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 1 minute ago, Phire said: @TheRealMcCoy are you thinking we were planning on keeping six active WRs on the 53? Last year we had five, IIRC. Last year we had one of the worst WR units in the league, so not keeping a lot made sense. That's not the case this year. Receiver is probably one of the strengths of the team now. Beat writers have said the Eagles liked Johnson last year more than we realize and that he likely would've been kept had he not got injured. I was listening to an interview with Johnson not too long ago where he talked about how he started working out with other teams after we cut him. We immediately called him up and told him he has a place on our practice squad and scooped him up. The next day the Dolphins offered him a practice squad spot, but he told them we already called the night before. The Eagles coaches and players speak highly of Johnson. Jimmy Kempski asked players anonymously who they thought was the most improved player on the team and Marcus Johnson ran away with it. He had something like 14 votes and the 2nd highest vote getter was Agholor with like 4. Johnson is making plays every day in camp and is the guy chosen most often to fill in with the 1s when Jeffery or Smith are out. He is the top back-up for either outside receiver spot now that Agholor is likely a full time slot receiver with Jordan Matthews gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltman Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 18 minutes ago, TheRealMcCoy said: Johnson was a lock to make it before we traded Matthews. This doesn't change anything for him. Good to know. But not many people here, have really seen him All we have to go off of for Marcus is what beat writers report...which honestly only goes so far. Every year there are receivers who they get hyped on that are "surprise" cuts come that time. I'm eagerly waiting to see him play and buy in on him. But he's still an unknown at this point to me at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealMcCoy Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 44 minutes ago, Kiltman said: Good to know. But not many people here, have really seen him All we have to go off of for Marcus is what beat writers report...which honestly only goes so far. Every year there are receivers who they get hyped on that are "surprise" cuts come that time. I'm eagerly waiting to see him play and buy in on him. But he's still an unknown at this point to me at least. The beat writers reports only goes so far, but the Eagles coaches giving him a lot of first team snaps in place of Jeffery and Smith says A LOT. Marcus Johnson is getting lots of snaps with the 1st team. That is a lot different than guys like Paul Turner and Rasheed Bailey who were mainly working with the 2nd and 3rd teams. But, yeah he is definitely an unknown to us. We can't watch practices on the daily and we didn't get to see him in the first preseason game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EaglesFan5-36-81 Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 4 locks Jefferey Smith Agholor Hollins After that Johnson and if we keep 6 Treggs cut your losses with Gibson, his main job is to catch the football and he sucks at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezla Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 I'd take Paul Turner over Treggs. Need to actually see Johnson. He better be healthy next week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabbs4u Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Johnson was never ever a lock before the trade. There was never a need to keep 6 WR with the RB and TE who can split out or play the slot on this roster. NOW after the Trade he is defenitly in the mix with Treggs for #5 and god forbid we see something anything from Hands of Stone Gibson so we're not wasting a 5th. Only locks AJ, Torrey, Agholor, Hollins Then it's Treggs (2nd year), Johnson, Turner, Gibson, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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