{"id":347958,"date":"2025-12-14T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347958\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:19:08","slug":"with-jalen-carter-out-brandon-graham-has-moved-to-defensive-tackle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347958\/","title":{"rendered":"With Jalen Carter out, Brandon Graham has moved to defensive tackle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandom Graham could easily say, \u201cI\u2019m getting too old for this shit.\u201d But he isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>With defensive tackle Jalen Carter out after undergoing surgery on both shoulders, Graham has slid from his normal position of defensive end to defensive tackle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBG actually played defensive tackle in the game, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6885563\/2025\/12\/13\/philadelphia-eagles-saquon-barkley-jordan-davis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">probably [for] the first time in his career<\/a>, when it was either-or situations, not just rush,\u201d defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said this week, via Zach Berman of TheAthletic.com. \u201cHe helped pick up the slack of losing Jalen Carter and did a nice job. . . . BG is the ultimate pro. He\u2019s got strength. He knows how to play blocks. I think he\u2019ll be better this week moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham had previously slipped inside in obvious passing downs. Against the Chargers on Monday night \u2014 and apparently against the Raiders on Sunday \u2014 he\u2019ll be a full-fledged defensive tackle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy training camp is over,\u201d said Graham, who emerged from retirement to rejoin the Eagles in October. \u201cI\u2019m trying to do everything I can for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the defense isn\u2019t the problem \u2014 even without Carter. If the Eagles are going to turn things around, they need to get their offense to move the ball more consistently, and to cut down on the turnovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandom Graham could easily say, \u201cI\u2019m getting too old for this shit.\u201d But he isn\u2019t. With defensive tackle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-347958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}