The biggest Eagles camp conversation has centered on the new offense and a defense that looks loaded, but there’s another storyline worth watching, and it involves a player whose margin for error has shrunk fast.
That player is Jake Elliott.
After a rough 2025 season, Elliott enters this camp with plenty to prove. He connected on just 20 of 27 field goals last year, a 74.1% mark that was the second-lowest of his career. The skid got especially ugly late in the year, when he missed field goals in four of five games.
Despite that, the Eagles did not bring in competition for him, and he also received a restructured deal for the 2026 season during the offseason. So far, though, there hasn’t been a flood of reporting on how his summer has gone.
One of the few concrete updates came late in July, when The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jeff McLane reported that Elliott was 6-of-7 on field goals in the early part of camp. His longest make was from 46 yards, while the miss came from 40 yards and was hooked left.
This week, special teams coordinator Michael Clay addressed Elliott’s progress, and the focus was less on mechanics than on mindset. Clay said the biggest thing he’s watching is body language.
“For him, it was just resetting. And you never want to see guys- I look a lot at body language.
You never want to see them kind of get out of sorts in terms of their body language. So for me, me and him to having our own personal talks, I think he's done a really good job up since that in terms of his body language being better, you know, and not necessarily getting down on himself on things he can't control.
Control what you can control, and if you're able to be on top of that, there's going to be things in life you can't control."
Clay later reinforced that point by saying Elliott has been better with his body language and has done a better job of not getting down on things he can’t control.
For now, that seems to be the story with Elliott: a reset, a search for confidence, and an attempt to rediscover the version of himself that was making more than 90% of his kicks just a few years ago. The Eagles haven’t had to publicly stage a kicking battle, but the early signs suggest Elliott still has work to do on the long-range stuff before the regular season arrives.
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