EAGLES UNFILTERED: Looking at Rookie Camp and James Bradberry

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Rookie camp is in the books and OTAs are approaching, so it’s a good time to catch up and on how things went with the draft picks, the undrafted free agents, and the tryout players in their first taste of being a professional.
Eagles unfiltered hosts Ed Kracz and Conor Myles do just that.
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Here are a few highlights from the conversation:
Which rookie do the Eagles Unfiltered hosts think will have the greatest impact from a class of five picks. There’s no disagreement on who we think that will be.
As for which drafted player could have an impact that nobody might quite be expecting, well, that would be tight end Grant Calcaterra, the Eagles’ final pick of the draft and 198th player taken overall.
Kracz was on hand and gives some insight on what he saw on the first day of camp, a practice that had to be moved indoors due to heavy rain.
Which players stood out that weren’t drafted?
Which position group was best represented among the 42 players on the rookie roster and why?
The conversation isn’t limited to just rookies. Also, Kracz and Myles get into some James Bradberry discussion.
After being released by the New York Giants, Bradberry would seem to be a solid fit for an Eagles team that could use a veteran presence opposite Darius Slay.
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Ed Kracz is the publisher of SI.com’s Fan Nation Eagles Today and co-host of the Eagles Unfiltered Podcast. Check out the latest Eagles news at www.SI.com/NFL/Eagles or www.eaglesmaven.com and please follow him on Twitter: @kracze.

Ed Kracz has been covering the Eagles full-time for over a decade and has written about Philadelphia sports since 1996. He wrote about the Phillies in the 2008 and 2009 World Series, the Flyers in their 2010 Stanely Cup playoff run to the finals, and was in Minnesota when the Eagles secured their first-ever Super Bowl win in 2017. Ed has received multiple writing awards as a sports journalist, including several top-five finishes in the Associated Press Sports Editors awards.
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