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We are at a point in the National Football League Season where plenty of chatter is starting to pick up.
We are now entering Week 8, and teams now have a pretty good idea about what their strengths and weaknesses are. The trade deadline will pass on Nov. 5 and some teams already have gotten a head start on making moves ahead of it.
With each passing week, Bleacher Report’s scouting department analyzes each team’s biggest weaknesses and attempts to find ways to fix them. Bleacher Report gives an option to get right now, next offseason in free agency, and in the next draft each week.
In their latest piece, they predicted that Philadelphia Eagles starting defensive tackle Milton Williams will end up leaving the team next offseason in free agency and end up joining the Tennessee Titans.
“2025 Free Agency: DT Milton Williams, Philadelphia Eagles,” Bleacher Report said. “The Titans are obviously early in a rebuild, and the defensive line should be among the top priorities. Jeffery Simmons is a star interior defender, and T’Vondre Sweat is a promising nose tackle prospect, but the Titans don’t have many other talents to lean on outside of those two.
“Milton Williams isn’t a superstar, but he has been a solid rotational option for the Eagles. If he wants to go somewhere he can take on a bigger role and probably get paid well, the Titans could be the right fit.”
He is currently in the final year of his four-year, $5.1 million contract. It’s too early to know whether or not the Eagles will want him back in 2025 but it’s already clear that he will have suitors.
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Sharing The Stage With An Elite QB Could Spark Eagles’ Star
Rewind three years from that and Hurts was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy at Oklahoma, finishing short of LSU’s Joe Burrow.
On Sunday, at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati Hurts has an opportunity to make franchise history by winning in the Queen City for the first time. To do that he and the Eagles (4-2) will have to beat Burrow, who has developed into one of the elite QBs in the NFL, and the Bengals (3-4).
Hurts wasn’t interested in any Heisman reminiscing on Wednesday after practice when asked how far he and the Bengals superstar’s relationship went back.
“As far as?” Hurts responded prompting the Heisman follow-up.
“Got to hang out with all of the guys, and I think it was a fun, overall experience. Obviously, got a ton of respect for him,” said Hurts.
The opportunity to square off against a Burrows-led Cincinnati team comes at a time when some have started to question what’s going on with Hurts and the Eagles’ offense, which was supposed to be one of the most explosive in the NFL and scaled back to a 1975-like ground-and-pound mentality against the hapless New York Giants last week.
The first-quarter troubles remain (Philadelphia is the only NFL team not to score in the first 15 minutes this season) and third downs became an issue against the Giants with the Philadelphia offense finishing 1-of-13 against New York, something at least somewhat mitigated by a 3 for 3 showing on fourth down.
“I talk about the importance of getting first downs. There are multiple ways of doing that,” Hurts said when discussing the first-quarter issues. “It doesn’t have to be a down-the-field shot, obviously. But it’s a matter of executing what’s called, and everybody being on the same page, and being committed to what we’re doing.”
The operation hasn’t been clean early in games, something offensive coordinator Kellen Moore has discussed consistently.
“We gotta do it cleaner,” admitted Hurts. “There have been some funky things that have happened. You have a tipped ball. You have a false start. We’re not really helping ourselves in these situations. That’s why I’m excited about what’s to come because it’s all things we can fix.”
The third-down problems haven’t been as consistent. However, the poor showing against the Giants had Philadelphia tumbling to 23rd in the league, its worst standing in the major offensive statistical categories.
“We were in third-and-long all the time, so we gotta change that,” Hurts said. “Stay ahead of the sticks.”
While it’s never fair to boil any NFL game down to quarterback vs. quarterback, playing well on the same stage as Burrow could start shifting the narrative that Hurts has regressed since his 2022 apex, a sentiment that seems to be growing rapidly among NFL pundits.
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