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Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

The DiCecco Daily: Significance Of Eagles Practice Squad Elevation Vs. Vikings

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Birds

Sports, Football

4.6910 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

ITB's Eagles beat reporter Andrew DiCecco gives his insights from covering the Eagles on a daily basis.

In this episode, he explains the Eagles' practice squad elevation decision for Sunday's game vs. the Vikings.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's going on everybody?

0:11.4

Welcome into this edition of the Checo Daily.

0:13.5

It's Andrew DeCechko here from Inside thebirds.com.

0:15.9

Checking in as the Eagles on this Saturday afternoon made a practice squad elevation announcement,

0:22.4

tight-end E.J. Jenkins will be available and active Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock when the Eagles

0:27.2

take on those Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. So the Eagles tight ends this week will be

0:33.2

tight-end Dallas Goddert, Kylin Granson, E.J. Jenkins, and Kam Latsu, who really doubles as a fullback within the

0:41.1

context of the Eagles offense, but he's a tight end by trade.

0:45.5

But what's interesting is that last week when Grant Cacetara didn't play with the oblique,

0:51.3

it was, you know, they kind of kept the status quo with the tight end room.

0:55.2

They didn't elevate E.J.

0:56.7

They didn't make any alterations to the tight end room.

0:59.0

But this week, they do, which is interesting, because if you've listened to me throughout

1:03.0

the summer, I've maintained that E.J. Jenkins is the second best blocking tight end on the

1:07.7

Eagles roster behind Dallas Goddard.

1:09.7

You can make the case that Cam Lottu has sort of leapfrogged him there.

1:13.1

Cam Latu, I've been very bullish on.

1:14.8

I've talked a lot about him.

1:16.4

I've noted his blocking efficiency in training camp.

1:19.9

But the addition of Jenkins, and you couple that with Latu and Goddard, it gives the Eagles

1:26.0

more beef and more physicality at the point

1:29.3

of attack, particularly as it pertains to the running game. So in theory, if they were to lean on that,

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