This time last year, Cam Jurgens was coming off back surgery, managing all kinds of soreness in his body and preparing to play an entire season at far less than 100 percent. 

Now? He’s a new man.

“Feeling better, you know?” Jurgens said after practice Wednesday. “I feel like it’s just trying to be consistent with everything my process, my rehab, and getting ready for practice every day and just try to work on those little things. So then, you know, little by little, it’s going to get better.

“I feel like every week it’s been making improvements. I’m really happy with where I’m at. Heading into the season, I feel like I’m in a lot better spot than I was last year.”

Jurgens made it through 14 of 17 regular-season games last year on sheer guts and he even made his second straight Pro Bowl, becoming the first center in Eagles history to make two Pro Bowls in his first four seasons. Jason Kelce made six total, but his second came in Year 6.

Jurgens got through the season but he wasn’t the player he was in 2024. Wasn’t close.

He underwent stem cell treatments in Medellin, Columbia, after the season, and remarkably Jurgens didn’t miss a single practice – or even a snap – because of injuries during the 17 days of training camp practice.

“It’s great, especially with the new offense, getting those reps in, communicating with the guys, and no matter who’s next to me, who’s at tackle or guard, it’s good talking to everybody and talking through that terminology and being able to be out there to make the mistakes to go in and work on it,” he said. “I’m just happy with how it’s responding.”

O-line health was a huge concern coming into camp after Jurgens and left guard Landon Dickerson were both hobbled by injuries last year and 36-year-old Lane Johnson was coming off a season where he was sidelined the last eight weeks of the season.

Johnson missed four days of camp with personal reasons that weren’t injury related and Dickerson had a couple maintenance days off. But considering everything, the o-line couldn’t be healthier. 

Not one of the starting five missed a day with an injury during camp, which ended Wednesday.

Jurgens said it’s also easier physically once camp ends and the team gets on a regular Wednesday-Thursday-Friday practice schedule heading into the regular season.

”There’s always good and bad days,” Jurgens said. “Even today, I feel like three days ago we had like a long-drive day, and then we go into a long scrimmage last night where I feel like it felt like a game, and then today we got another practice, just like back-to-back-to-back.

“When the season starts and we get back to that normal regular schedule, it’ll be changing. But I mean, even this week, we have like three days ago, it was like a weird time for practice. And then we had like the night stadium practice. Now we’re at two. Like, it’s hard to get that normal schedule right now. 

“And I think everybody’s excited to get into the season and have that structure. I feel like as a football player and athlete, it’s nice having that structure. It’s weird when things always change up on you.”

One thing that has changed is Jurgens’ position coach. After 13 years, Jeff Stoutland is gone, replaced by long-time NFL guard Chris Kuper.

The early returns are impressive.

“Yeah, I think (the relationship) just keeps growing, just understanding him and how he coaches and how he approaches things and how he likes to work and just going through.

“Maybe there’s a day like today where we are feeling it, we’re exhausted. It’s been nice just figuring out how he ticks and how we tick. And he’s been doing a great job of figuring out how to coach certain guys and adjust and make sure everybody’s learning properly. Certain guys learn different ways.

“If (there’s) a mental error, and that’s something that is frustrating and needs to be coached, he does a good job harping at that. And then like other things that you know, maybe confusion from a call or certain communication, he does a great job of talking through it and why it’s that way and why it should be called a certain way.

“He’s just consistent in what he coaches hard, and what he wants to talk through and coach, and he does a good job at it.”