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Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

The DiCecco Daily: Ben VanSumeren's Official Position Switch Impacts Offense, Defense

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Birds

Sports, Football

4.8868 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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ITB's Eagles beat reporter Andrew DiCecco gives his insights and observations from covering the Eagles on a daily basis. #philadelphiaeagles #eagles #flyeaglesfly #benvansumeren #nfldraft2025 #nfldraft #nfl #nflfreeagency

In this episode, Andrew goes inside how Ben VanSumeren's move from linebacker to fullback impacts the offense and defense.

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everybody?

0:11.0

Andrew DeCecho here.

0:12.0

This is a Wednesday edition of DeCecho Daily.

0:15.0

And today, there's going to be no tush push talk.

0:19.0

I've had my quota for the next day or so.

0:23.3

But we are going to talk about fullback.

0:25.9

That's right, fullback, Ben Van Sumerin, who resigned with the Eagles in March.

0:32.1

It was right when I was at Rutgers Pro Day when the news came through.

0:36.0

And he was listed as a fullback, exclusively as a fullback, which was interesting to me.

0:41.4

Because, of course, we all remember that he moonlighted at fullback, but he's a linebacker by trade.

0:47.2

He does have the running back background from his time at Michigan.

0:51.2

One of the best athletes on the foot off Eagles, first and foremost. So if you

0:54.7

don't know a lot about them, you can go back and read some of the work that I, some of the

0:59.2

stories that I've written about Ben, but a tremendous athlete. And I remember very well that

1:04.9

there was the Eagles put out a video, I think, last year, and the players are walking off the field and walking into the locker room.

1:13.3

And different players are saying who they thought the best athlete of the team was.

1:17.1

Now, you hear a lot of me, you know, like, oh, it's me, no doubt about it.

1:21.1

But I remember Thomas Booker pointed at Van Zumerant and said, Ben, and Ben kind of like shook his head sheepishly and walked off because

1:29.4

that's kind of the guy that he is, but a fantastic athlete, somebody who runs a 4-4, who jumps

1:36.1

a 40-inch vertical, who can play lineback, who can play fullback, who had a baseball background.

1:41.7

He nearly played baseball for Michigan State.

1:45.8

So this is a player that, and to pick up fullback at the NFL level and make an impact early, I think is a really

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