PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The Philadelphia Eagles held their 10th practice of training camp on Tuesday. It was the penultimate full practice before Saturday\u2019s preseason opener against the Baltimore Ravens. Wednesday\u2019s walkthrough is closed to reporters, and Thursday offers the final glimpse of the team before it heads south. Here are the main takeaways from Tuesday\u2019s practice:<\/p>\n
1. Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said Jonathan Greenard will be sidelined for \u201canother couple weeks \u2014 at least.\u201d The update is not great news, and raises questions about how available (or effective) Greenard will be in Week 1. The Pro Bowl edge rusher strained his pectoral muscle while lifting over the summer and began training camp on the PUP list.<\/p>\n
Greenard attends every practice. He participates in team meetings. Fellow edge rusher Jalyx Hunt said Greenard is \u201calways around in some way, shape or form.\u201d Hunt said Greenard has given him advice on his pass-rush techniques during practice film review sessions. But the Eagles can\u2019t yet know if they will see early returns from their substantial offseason investment in Greenard<\/a>. Can Hunt, Nolan Smith, and the depth behind them maintain the position group\u2019s standard until Greenard gets up to speed?<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s doing everything he can to stay up and be prepared as much as you can without doing anything physically,\u201d Fangio said of Greenard. \u201cHe\u2019s been great that way. But when he does come back \u2014 whenever that is \u2014 the thing you miss by not partaking in training camp, which he probably won\u2019t, you\u2019ve got to get calloused to play in football, NFL football. The banging. The running. The change in direction. The fatigue of it. And he\u2019s going to lose that.\u201d<\/p>\n The Darius Cooper show continues at Eagles training camp<\/p>\n Zach Berman<\/p>\n 2. Jalen Carter said he is \u201cprobably like\u201d 10 pounds lighter this year. The Eagles and Fangio have an ideal weight for Carter, but Carter has withheld the exact number because of a weight clause in his contract. (Carter is officially listed at 6-foot-3, 314 pounds.) Carter became an every-down defender upon Fangio\u2019s arrival in 2024, playing 84 percent of the defense\u2019s total snaps in each of the last two seasons. Carter said dropping more weight will help him be \u201cless tired throughout the plays\u201d and \u201csave his energy from some plays throughout the game.\u201d<\/p>\n The Eagles will certainly benefit from a more energized Carter. Their Week 13 loss to the Chicago Bears<\/a> revealed how opponents could wear them down and push them around with a steady series of cutbacks and misdirection runs. The wide zone scheme the Eagles are shifting to on offense is properly testing the endurance and discipline of Carter and his defensive teammates. So are the post-practice wind sprints. Carter kept his head down as he ran with the defensive linemen \u2014 and did not know he finished first.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t even paying attention,\u201d Carter said. \u201cI was just running.\u201d<\/p>\n 3. Fangio said he thinks quarterback Jalen Hurts \u201clooks faster\u201d this year.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, we can\u2019t touch him during practice,\u201d Fangio said. \u201cSo, there\u2019s always that debate whether you had him or not. And I think there\u2019s been a few times where our guys think they had him and they really didn\u2019t. I think he\u2019s moving good. I think he\u2019s doing a nice job with the new offense.\u201d<\/p>\n Hunt and Carter agreed with Fangio\u2019s observation.<\/p>\n \u201cOh yeah,\u201d Carter said. \u201cI had him coming out of, you know, a little play-action rollout and I chased him down a couple times. He honestly be moving. I don\u2019t know what it is. But when I\u2019m watching him when I\u2019m running, it\u2019s like a movie. Feels like I\u2019m going slow. He be moving, man. He\u2019s been working hard \u2014 and he\u2019s \u2018The One.’\u201d<\/p>\n Hurts said he didn\u2019t do anything specific over the offseason to get faster and that he doesn\u2019t feel any different now than he has in the past.<\/p>\n But from my perspective, Philadelphia\u2019s new offensive system is giving defenders a different view of Hurts\u2019 speed. The way Carter talked about being in slow motion while chasing Hurts is how defenders have described chasing the quarterback since his time at Channelview High in Houston.<\/p>\n This is the most we have seen Hurts run bootlegs from under center, though. This is the most defenders have chased him laterally. That this is creating observations of a \u201cfaster\u201d Hurts adds to the pile of favorable evidence that the QB is a fit in this new system.<\/p>\n First (unofficial) depth chart of the season. <\/p>\n Eagles list Cooper DeJean as first-team nickel and first-team safety, and then go with Michael Carter\/Marcus Epps at safety. It’s Andy Dalton\/Tanner McKee at QB2. <\/p>\n Makai Lemon is listed as one of the 3 starting WRs. pic.twitter.com\/WxgyV3ntbu<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Zach Berman (@ZBerm) August 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n 4. Quinyon Mitchell appeared to injure his right leg while covering Hollywood Brown in one-on-one drills. Brown made a sudden cut back toward the ball, and Mitchell stumbled trying to do the same. Mitchell stayed down for a moment before kneeling along the sideline next to a trainer. The trainer then had Mitchell lie on his back and stretched his leg. Mitchell put his helmet back on and tried to rejoin the defense during team drills, but the coaching staff sent in Mac McWilliams instead. Mitchell remained on the sideline for the rest of practice and did not participate in the post-practice wind sprints.<\/p>\n Mitchell, 25, is one of the core members of a premier secondary. He and Cooper DeJean were named first-team All-Pros in 2025. (DeJean picked off Andy Dalton in Tuesday\u2019s team drills.) Fangio said Mitchell \u201cjust keeps improving\u201d and hasn\u2019t rested \u201con any of the laurels that he\u2019s gotten in his first two years.\u201d Mitchell snagged his second interception of training camp in Monday\u2019s practice<\/a> \u2014 a sign that he\u2019d been taking a step toward recording his first career interception in the regular season.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019ll quickly remind you that he\u2019s got four in the playoffs,\u201d Fangio said. \u201cBut he\u2019s still a virgin in the regular season.\u201d<\/p>\n Quinyon Mitchell did not return to practice. He also did not participate in the sprints the team ran afterward. https:\/\/t.co\/tkUkgO7IYl<\/a><\/p>\n