Hear from the Eagles’ new rookies

TL;DR

The Eagles' new rookies are gearing up for rookie minicamp and shared insights on their experiences and adaptation to the team's new system during press conferences.

Key points

Eagles' rookies are preparing for rookie minicamp
Rookies shared insights during press conferences
Eli Stowers discussed learning a new offense
Focus on adapting to new offensive and defensive systems

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As the Eagles latest draft picks prepare to start rookie minicamp, they spent a few minutes with reporters to talk about their experience up to this point, where they see themselves within the new system, and how they plan to learn a whole new offense or defense.

Here’s some of the notable moments from Thursday’s press conferences:

Eli Stowers

The rookie tight end spoke about where the starting point is to learning a whole new offense.

“ I think you just start from the foundation. So, you know, the formations, the terminology, how did they identify fronts, you know, how did they identify combos in the run game, things like that. Then you learn the formations, the motions, and then you just build upon that. Coach Mahaffey ‘s been doing a good job with me and Dae’Quan [Wright], just kind of giving us the foundation of it and then we’re going to continue to learn over the next however long.”

He later credited TE coach Ryan Mahaffey for having a good understanding of the offensive scheme and breaking it down and teaching it in easily understandable ways. The rookie couldn’t talk about specifically what he’s seen of the Eagles offensive scheme, but has a lot of confidence that there will be a lot of opportunities to make plays.

“I know that [Sean Mannion]’s going to be really good for this program. He’s a really smart mind. Just like just learning the offense in the in the few days that I have, I can tell that it’s going to be a really good scheme and that we’re going to be able to make some really good plays, and our offense is going to be powerful because of him and so I’m really excited to work with him.”

Stowers confirmed that he views himself as a tight end, but being considered a big wide receiver just speaks to his ability as a pass catcher. Ultimately, though, he wants to be used in the offense as tight end, and do whatever he’s asked to do, including blocking. That was one of the bigger parts of his game he had to develop after moving from QB to TE, but he has the want to learn.

“The thing that you just have to learn the most is like you really got to get your technique down and a lot of it is reps and so you get the muscle memory down, and the other side of it is just the will to want to block and I have that and I want to be the best, you know, blocker that I can be from that point. It’s just, you know, learning my techniques and really practicing it.”