The Eagles found a tiny reason to smile Sunday, and it came on a screen pass that actually went somewhere.
Philadelphia didn’t call the Makai Lemon bubble screen this time, which alone counts as progress. Instead, the Eagles used their lone screen of the day on a quick throw to Dontayvion Wicks.
At first glance, it looked doomed. Then Wicks turned it into a five-yard gain.
The play was a mess around him. Lemon and Darius Cooper both ended up blocking the same defender.
Cam Jurgens barely slowed Braden Fiske and then completely missed Nate Landman. But Wicks slipped past Fiske, Drew Kendall got a body on Landman, and the whole thing somehow finished with positive yardage.
It happened late in the fourth quarter after the Rams marched 98 yards to pull within 20-17. Philadelphia had just handed the ball to Tank Bigsby for one yard on first-and-10, and Bigsby went down injured on the play.
The next snap was the screen to Wicks. If he doesn’t create something out of nothing, the boos would have been loud.
As it stands, the play goes down as a five-yard gain.
That also nudged the Eagles’ season numbers in a slightly less ugly direction. Through the 2026 NFL regular season, Philadelphia has completed 10 of 15 passes thrown behind the line of scrimmage, all by Jalen Hurts, for -3 yards, no touchdowns and no interceptions. That works out to -0.20 yards per attempt.
A few weeks ago, that number sat at -8 yards. So yes, small victories count.
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