{"id":201459,"date":"2025-10-09T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201459\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:27:08","slug":"eagles-activate-key-linebacker-nakobe-dean-from-pup-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201459\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles activate key linebacker Nakobe Dean from PUP list"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim McManusOct 10, 2025, 09:16 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Tim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2016 after covering the Eagles for Philadelphia Magazine’s Birds 24\/7, a site he helped create, since 2010.<\/p>\n

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> linebacker Nakobe Dean<\/a> was activated off the reserve\/physically unable to perform list in front of Thursday night’s game at the New York Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dean, 24, tore the patellar tendon in his left knee during the Eagles’ wild-card playoff win over the Green Bay Packers<\/a> in January. If he sees action as expected against the Giants, it will mark his first on-field work in nine months.<\/p>\n

“Because he hadn’t had any [2025] game [experience], no training camp — it wouldn’t be a full-time role yet,” defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said earlier this week on Dean’s potential role.<\/p>\n

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Dean is now part of a crowded linebacker room featuring All-Pro Zack Baun<\/a> and rookie standout Jihaad Campbell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asked how he would make it work given that the primary spots seem accounted for, Fangio responded, “We’ll figure it out.”<\/p>\n

Dean was having a strong 2024 season before the injury. He posted 128 tackles, nine tackles for loss, three sacks and an interception during the regular season.<\/p>\n

A third-round pick out of Georgia in 2022, Dean has dealt with his share of injuries over three-plus seasons in the pros, including multiple foot injuries in ’23 that sidelined him for all but five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim McManusOct 10, 2025, 09:16 AM CloseTim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-201459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}