Eagles Draft Class Featured Five ‘Red Star’ Players, Says Roseman
PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Eagles’ “Red Star” designation is part of the organization’s zeitgeist after GM Howie Roseman unveiled it last year when discussing third-round safety Sydney
“Sydney Brown was a passion player for a lot of people in this organization,” Roseman said last year after selecting Brown. “He was a red star guy. And I think just a tremendous person with obviously really good athletic tools, leadership ability, and for us, just excited to get him in the building.”
The antennas were raised.
Red star?
“That’s a guy who kind of exemplifies what it means to be an Eagle,” Roseman explained. “So it’s great character, captain, testing numbers, intelligence, plays the way it should be played, practices the way it should be played.”
So it’s not just talent. If that was the case defensive tackle Jalen Carter might have been a five red-star general last April.
This time around Roseman perused his phone when asked about 2024 red-star players.
“You know what, I’m going to read you a text because I thought this was good. I got this from two of my — two of our senior college guys,” Roseman said. “We almost had unanimous “A” football character. I think of those guys red stars. One, two, three. We had five red stars.”
When pressed how they were Roseman begged off not wanting to disparage the four others drafted who didn’t quite reach the high bar.
“Come on,” Roseman said.
The Eagles’ GM couldn’t keep things completely under wraps because the team’s “Unscripted” streaming show had clips of the organization’s “Red Star Meeting” where the edits showed scouts declaring fourth-round running back Will Shipley of Clemson, former Michigan captain Trevor Keegan, and legacy linebacker Jeremiah Trotter Jr. of also Clemson, both fifth-round picks, as three of the Red Star designations.
“We had kind of a philosophy. We wanted to have a mentality offseason,” said Roseman. “We wanted to bring in people here who had a chip on their shoulder because we felt like we had a little bit of a chip on our shoulder.
“Not in a bad way. Just in a way like we felt like we wanted to do whatever we could to put ourselves in the best possible situation for this year because we had a bad taste in our mouth the last year.”
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