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Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

The DiCecco Daily: My Thoughts On The Eagles' Trade For CB Jakorian Bennett

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Birds

Sports, Football

4.6910 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

ITB's Eagles beat reporter Andrew DiCecco gives his insights and observations from covering the Eagles on a daily basis. #philadelphiaeagles #eagles #flyeaglesfly #vicfangio #nicksirianni #jakorianbennett #thomasbooker


In this episode, he gives his insights on the Eagles trading DT Thomas Booker IV to the Raiders for CB Jakorian Bennett.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening, everybody? How you feeling out there? Welcome into another edition of DeCecho

0:13.9

Daily. Andrew DeCechko here, obviously giving you all of the news and notes for the Eagles.

0:20.6

And today, in this case, it's an

0:22.3

update because Howie Roseman never sleeps. You have your August trade. I'm sitting there writing my

0:28.5

story on Drew Kennel, which if you're listening to this Tuesday morning, it's on inside thebirds.com.

0:34.4

And now I'm going for a nice stroll here on this beautiful Monday evening,

0:39.0

but I didn't want to leave you hanging. The Eagles pull off a trade. They send defensive tackle

0:43.8

Thomas Booker the fourth to the Las Vegas Raiders for cornerback Jacori and Bennett,

0:50.4

who I really like coming out of the 2023 draft, fourth round pick.

0:54.9

Obviously, if you follow my work, you know that I follow the Maryland program pretty closely.

1:00.2

And this is a twitchy athletic corner that the Eagles are getting.

1:03.9

And he has really good ball skills.

1:05.8

11 pass breakups.

1:07.7

He's played in two seasons.

1:09.1

24 games, 11 starts. 5 foot 11, 195 pounds. Fast. This is a fast corner and he's an outside corner, which makes this edition interesting. So obviously, the first question is, how does he fit? And will he be involved in the two-man cornerback competition with Keeley Ringo and veteran

1:30.5

of Dori Jackson?

1:31.9

My answer is, I would assume so, because when you add a player of that quality who has

1:37.1

started games in the NFL, I think that it lends itself to adding another name into the mix,

1:43.1

which is also interesting because

1:44.9

Eli Ricks, the Eagles third year corner, is also put together a nice camp. But I never got the

1:50.6

sense that Vic Fangio was overwhelmed by the cornerback play that he was receiving from Ringo and Jackson.

1:58.3

And at every turn, he sort of offered a relatively lukewarm response and even today

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