Andrew DeCechko here from inside thebirds.com. Welcome to our rookie diary series with Eagles running back Will Shipley.

Each week, I'll talk to the fourth round pick from Clemson to get his thoughts on his first season in Midnight Green.

We hope you enjoy. So obviously that third play of the game, were you ready for it on that bubble, that bubble play?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I was ready for it.

You know, I knew it was going to be an early call just based off of our game plan.

So I didn't know when it was going to come, but, you know,

it was a replay where he had the option to throw it to me or hand it off depending on the look.

And, you know, I was ready to go for sure.

No, you definitely were because that was a third play of the game. I don't think the rest of the

game you were in on offense. So you are ready at a moment's notice. Oh yeah, no doubt. Did you have to condition

yourself to be like that? Yeah, you do. Because you've always been, you've always been the guy.

Yeah, yeah, you know, it's definitely different, especially just having like a special team's

mindset going in, knowing that's my main role is to go out there

and perform on special teams so just also knowing that whenever my number's called on offense

you know I got to be as ready to go as if that was my main role you know so it's definitely

tough and something that I'm getting used to but kind of just what I've I've had to face this year

and you know I love it at the end of the

day I'm embracing it and any opportunity I get I'm going to be ready for so what was the atmosphere

like in that game it felt like it was ratcheted up almost like a postseason game yeah it was great

it really did feel like that you know I remember coming over to the sideline and coach singleton

saying you know we didn't we didn't think they were just did feel like that. You know, I remember coming over to the sideline and coach Singleton saying,

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