Eagles live updates: Birds hold first practice; two players sit out; Jason Kelce makes an appearance

After a Pablo Torre Finds Out episode revealed a previously hidden arbitration ruling in a collusion case, the union has been rocked by high-level resignations from executive director Lloyd Howell and chief strategy officer JC Tretter.

“We’ll call it how it is: It’s a mess,” Jordan Mailata, the Eagles’ player rep with the NFLPA, said Wednesday. “We have the right people in place right now — right now.”

Union members recently learned that leadership had agreed to hiding the findings of an arbitration ruling with the league. After filing a claim in October 2022 under previous leadership alleging that league owners colluded to limit guaranteed money in player contracts following Deshaun Watson’s fully-guaranteed deal, the union learned that an arbitrator in ruling in favor of the NFL also found that the NFLPA had shown “a clear preponderance of the evidence” that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell pushed owners to restrict guaranteed money in player contracts.

Jalen Hurts secured two rings this offseason — one to honor his marriage and another to commemorate the Eagles’ Super Bowl victory.

It’s unclear, though, if he’s put the latter on yet.

In one photo from Friday’s ring ceremony, Hurts posed with the open box clutched between his hands alongside Nick Sirianni and Jeffrey Lurie, who each wore the rings on their fingers. In another photo, Hurts sat on a sofa with Brandon Graham, who had both of his Super Bowl rings on either hand. A ringless Hurts simply pointed his left index finger to the Lombardi Trophy in his right hand.

The Eagles lined up for their first team drills of camp right around 10:30 Wednesday morning and offered up a first look at who is in the various starting spots that are up in the air.

With Kenyon Green missing practice, the mystery of the right guard position was far less suspenseful. Tyler Steen got the first look with the first team.

On defense, though, there was some intrigue. In base, Cooper DeJean lined up next to his podcast partner, Reed Blankenship. When the Eagles went into nickel, DeJean moved into the slot and Sydney Brown slotted in at safety. Kelee Ringo, meanwhile, was the outside corner opposite Quinyon Mitchell.

Howie Roseman and Nick Sirianni took the podium Wednesday morning, and Roseman started the interview session with an injury update.

Linebacker Nakobe Dean will begin camp on the physically unable to perform list as he continues to recover from a torn patellar tendon.

Dean is the only player with an injury designation, Roseman said, meaning all other players are scheduled to be on the field for the first practice Wednesday.

It's the first day of school as the Eagles hit the field at the NovaCare Complex later this morning to open their 2025 training camp, and it's worth hopping in the DeLorean and traveling back to one year ago.

On the day the Eagles opened camp last year, the topic du jour was the weird relationship between Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts. The Athletic had reported a strain, and both subjects were asked about it. Hurts had just a month earlier given a strange response when asked a question about Sirianni ceding control of the offense.

Hurts on the first day of camp turned the temperature down. Sirianni said the relationship was good. The rest, they say, is history.

We’ve seen about as wide a range of outcomes from the Eagles’ offensive-coordinator carousel as possible over the last two seasons. Whether Kevin Patullo falls closer to Kellen Moore or Brian Johnson as the Eagles’ primary play-caller won’t become clear until the regular season, but training camp will offer the first extended glimpse at how things may change with him as the driving force behind the offense.

There’s a compelling argument — one that centers on the preferences of Jalen Hurts and the domineering nature of the Eagles’ historic run game with Saquon Barkley — that they shouldn’t change much from last season.

The group demonstrated last season how challenging it is for opposing defenses to counter a triple-threat offense: a multiple rushing attack, an elite offensive line, and a running back who can break free when the line can’t. Still, Hurts’ excellence in Super Bowl LIX against a defense focused on stopping Barkley showed that this offense’s ceiling is even higher than it appeared during most of the regular season.

For a fourth year running, the Eagles enter training camp with a competition brewing for the spot next to Lane Johnson.

Tyler Steen has been a constant in each of the last two position battles, but he lost out to Cam Jurgens in 2023 and Mekhi Becton last summer. He played 399 offensive snaps last season without many notable hiccups.

This should be Steen’s best chance to earn the job.