{"id":737098,"date":"2026-07-01T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737098\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:06:08","slug":"eagles-want-jalen-carter-to-be-consistent-with-doing-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737098\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles want Jalen Carter &#8220;to be consistent with doing little things&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter became eligible for a contract extension this offseason and the lack of one may have contributed to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/nick-sirianni-declines-to-share-why-jalen-carter-isnt-doing-team-drills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">his limited participation<\/a> in the team\u2019s practices this spring. <\/p>\n<p>If no deal is in place by the start of training camp, Carter\u2019s participation will be a storyline again. The Eagles\u2019 hesitation about extending Carter will be another one and defensive line coach Clint Hurtt\u2019s comments about Carter from May could provide a view into the team\u2019s thinking. <\/p>\n<p>Carter has been named to two Pro Bowls and has had stretches of dominant play, but Hurtt suggested that the Eagles are looking for a more reliable baseline from the 2023 first-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has to be consistent with <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/philadelphiaeagles\/2026\/07\/eagles-star-retains-trust-after-a-rough-year-but-coach-warns-theres-a-line-we-cannot-cross.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">doing little things<\/a>,\u201d Hurtt said, via Cayden Steele of PennLive.com. \u201cWe\u2019ve all talked about the talent and the overall potential that he has . . . but it\u2019s the consistency of doing these small things the right way all the time. That\u2019s a big piece for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Injuries kept Carter off the field at times in 2025, so health could factor into the variance that the Eagles want Carter to eliminate from his game. Whatever the case, consistency is something they want more of in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter became eligible for a contract extension this offseason and the lack of one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-737098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737098","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=737098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}