The Eagles are heading into London at exactly the wrong time.
Teams traveling there on a winning streak have usually handled the trip just fine, going 8-4. The Eagles, though, are bringing a losing streak with them, and that’s been a mess: teams in that spot are 7-20.
It gets uglier when you look closer. Three of those wins came when both teams were already sliding, so somebody had to come out on top, and one game ended in a tie in 2016.
The other four victories belonged to the Jaguars, who, naturally, seem to live in London.
And the timing could hardly be worse for Philadelphia, because this offense has sunk to levels the franchise hasn’t seen in years.
The Eagles’ 18.8 points per game is their lowest mark since 2012. Their 269.75 yards per game is their worst since 1999.
Their 4.69 yards per play is also the lowest since 1999. The same goes for 5.6 yards per attempt, which hasn’t been this bad since 2000, and 4.7 adjusted net yards per attempt, which also goes back to 2000.
Completion percentage sits at 59.1 and sack rate at 9.45, both their worst marks since 2020, though those numbers get even harsher when you stretch the comparison back further: completion percentage since 2005, sack rate since 1998. They’re also at their worst since 2016 in yards per completion at 9.5, and their 4.2 yards per rushing attempt matches last year while still being the worst since 2018.
Even the deeper rushing and passing efficiency numbers are bleak, with 2.5 yards before contact per rush since 2019, a 23.6 bad throw percentage that’s the worst tracked since 2019, and a 67.0 on target percentage that’s also the worst tracked since 2019.
So how bad can this get? The 1998 Eagles averaged 10.1 points per game.
This group would have to average fewer than 7.4 points per game the rest of the way to reach that level, and that feels almost impossible. Right?
Elsewhere, the Travis Hunter experiment looks like it may finally be finding the right shape. The idea, as laid out here, is simple: it’s easier to make Hunter a full-time cornerback and part-time receiver than the other way around.
A depth receiver can live with a smaller route tree and a few designed touches. A depth corner can’t be handled that way.
Last year, in seven games, the Jaguars had Hunter on offense for at least 53% of snaps every game and on defense for more than 40% only twice. He wasn’t especially effective on either side.
This year, the workload has shifted the other direction. He played 59% of defensive snaps in Week 1, kept adding to that share each week, and played every snap last week.
On offense, he’s logged just 15 total snaps, none of them last week. The result: he’s now a good cornerback.
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There’s also a college football watch list worth tracking.
At noon, Indiana visits Nebraska, and both teams feature left tackles who may end up inside at the next level. Indiana’s Carter Smith looks too stiff to stay at tackle in the NFL and could wind up moving to the interior. Nebraska’s Elijah Pritchett hasn’t quite put it together yet, but at 6-foot-6 and 330 pounds, with movement to match, he has the kind of size teams will chase.
At 3:30, Texas meets Oklahoma. Trevor Goosby, Texas’ 6-foot-7, 325-pound left tackle, fits the kind of offensive tackle the Eagles like.
On the Oklahoma side, tight end Rocky Beers keeps producing. He was noted earlier because of the name, and because he played for two Colorado teams, but the production has followed: 14 catches for 178 yards and a touchdown against Michigan and Georgia combined.
There are more picks in the final three rounds of the draft than there are in the first three, and he fits that range.
UCLA and Oregon kick at 3:30 as well. UCLA running back Wayne Knight, listed at 5-foot-7 and 193 pounds, draws a Darren Sproles comparison both in size and in style.
Like Sproles, he’s already a touchdown machine on the ground with nine in four games, and he adds 27 receiving yards per game. He’s shifty, explosive, and dangerous with a spin move, but he’ll also take contact.
Oregon center Iapani Laloulu is huge for the position at 6-foot-2, 325 pounds. He’s played across the interior for Oregon, but in the NFL he projects more cleanly as a center.
He can anchor against a double team and sort out an unblocked interior rusher, though he’s not the type you want climbing much.
Then at 7:30, Georgia heads to Alabama. Georgia tight end Lawson Luckie has made a habit of finding the end zone, with five touchdowns among his 21 catches in 2025 and 2026.
He also likes to lower his shoulder into defenders, and he could grow into a star while still helping a team right away. On the Alabama side, edge rusher Yhonzae Pierre has the kind of traits teams covet, and this season he’s backing them up.
Against Mississippi State, he helped force Kamario Taylor out of the pocket and into a pick six, and he affected several other throws with his wingspan. The burst, bend, and pass-rush moves are all there.
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