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It will all make sense in due time..."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Eagles StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Eagles NewsYahoo Eagles Team PageYahoo Eagles ReportYahoo Eagles Depth ChartYahoo Eagles TransactionsYahoo Eagles PhotosOdds About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub ✕NFL DraftEagles 2019 NFL DraftStop worrying about JJ Arcega-Whiteside’s fit with the EaglesNew James Conner Jersey White ,248commentsIt will all make sense in due time...EDTShareTweetShareShareStop worrying about JJ Arcega-Whiteside’s fit with the EaglesKelvin Kuo-USA TODAY SportsThere’s a war going on. It’s over the word “fit.” It involves the Philadelphia Eagles’ second second-round selection: JJ Arcega-Whiteside. Scroll through the Twitter mentions or Reddit comments and you’ll see the battle being waged. Some are having a hard time coming to grips with the Stanford products’ role.Full disclosure: I loved the selection. I had Arcega-Whiteside (or “JJAW”, or “Cuervo”, or “JJAWN”, or “JJAWN Cuervo”) as my 38th ranked prospect and checking in as my WR4. Pro Football Focus is on my side on this one, so we are friends now. They ranked him as their 23rd overall prospect and praised the selection as one of the best picks of day two. I’ll have a full film review of how he graded out so well but let’s put that aside for right now. Let’s address the issue of fit, which has been asked about by many. By doing that, we have to talk about the philosophy entering the draft.The Eagles did their best to fill any immediate needs in free agency. There wasn’t a spot on the starting twenty-two that wasn’t at least occupied by a replacement-level starter. This includes linebacker, as the Eagles only field three backers a quarter of the time. This strategy gave them the flexibility to either try to upgrade certain positions or draft for depth and/or the future. This allows you to take the best player available on your board. That’s a good thing, or so I’ve been told.Arcega-Whiteside is in a similar mold of Alshon Jeffery, causing a mental logjam for those trying to envision how he fits. In the short term, those concerns are valid. The Eagles will have to find a way to work Arcega-Whiteside into the fold and even if Nelson Agholor is eventually traded between now and the deadline, the slot isn’t a likely option.Regardless of if they come for the slot or the outside, there are plenty of snaps to gobble up. Even with DeSean Jackson signing and Mack Hollins returning there’s playing time to be earned. In all Womens Jerome Bettis Jersey , there are 1,032 reps up for grabs if you go off of last years totals. If Agholor is traded before the season, that number skyrockets to 2,014.What is the best case scenario for the Eagles wide receiver corps? I would argue that it’s Jeffery, Jackson, Agholor, and Hollins all staying healthy. That would make life difficult for Arcega-Whiteside, certainly. How likely is that?Jeffery has played one full season in the past four years. He was playing with a torn rotator cuff in that full season. Jackson turns 33-years old this season and hasn’t made it a full sixteen since 2013. Hollins was a figment of our imagination last year. Even Zach Ertz has only one full season to his name, which was last year. I’m not breaking any news here when I say that players get injured in the NFL.Early in the season the Eagles were getting significant wide receiver snaps from Josh Perkins and Kamar Aiken. Later Jordan Matthews filled the void until Golden Tate joined the fray. Matthews played well enough, but that can’t happen again. With the Arcega-Whiteside selection, the Eagles bought themselves an insurance policy.Who can play outside when the Eagles kick Jackson into the slot? JJAW. Who can join Jeffery in the red zone when the field condenses? JJAWN. Who fills in for them in the event of an injury? JJAWN Cuervo. Who can accentuate the run game if Ertz misses time? Dallas Goedert, but Arcega-Whiteside gets after it too.If Arcega-Whiteside only sees - and I’m spitballing here - 30% of the snaps, the Eagles are still well off. It means they didn’t lose significant time from a depended upon contributor. That also allows the Eagles to bring him along at a comfortable pace. Howie Roseman has said that the wide receiver position takes longer to develop than others. This likely factored into the decision of drafting for the future instead of waiting until a need slapped them in the face.In the long term Jerome Bettis Jersey , there are several scenarios that can play out. I want Jeffery to be with the Eagles forever, but what if his career gets derailed between now and 2021? That’s the last year of his contract and comes with an approximately $16M cap hit. They’d save $13M by cutting him. If Arcega-Whiteside is ready for the full-time role at that time, he represents significant savings. That’s useful for a team that will be doling out franchise quarterback money.If Jeffery sticks for the long haul, does Jackson? He’ll be in his mid-thirties by then. That would leave the Eagles with a duo not unlike Jeffery’s pairing with Brandon Marshall when he was with the Chicago Bears. Jeffery had two of his best years with that dynamic.The Eagles spent the offseason ensuring they added speed and reinforcements to the offense. Not only did they accomplish that, but they added an insurance plan and a potential outside starter for the future. The front office and coaching staff had months to debate and make arguments regarding Arcega-Whiteside’s role. They have even longer to incorporate him into the offense. They have even longer than that to develop him.I’m not worried about Arcega-Whiteside’s fit today. I’m excited about how he can help the offense in the future. PITTSBURGH (AP) — The same words kept popping up as James Conner, Jaylen Samuels and Benny Snell Jr. talked. Words such as “we” and “us” and “relationships” and “my guys.”No personal agendas. No campaigning for more touches or playing time. No talk about contracts or specific roles. The Pittsburgh Steelers running backs just don’t see the point of personal pronouns.“We’re trying to be the best running back group in the world,” Samuels said.One that’s ready to escape Le’Veon Bell’s shadow for good.The versatile and dynamic three-time Pro Bowler’s long goodbye ended in March when he signed a four-year, $52 million deal with the New York Jets. For Conner and Samuels, that means no more keeping one eye on the playbook and another on the door to the locker room waiting for Bell to step through.He never did last fall, though that didn’t stop the seemingly endless debate over his intentions and his future, discussions the teammates he left behind tried to avoid even as they combined to put up numbers that rivaled Bell’s at the peak of his considerable powers.Conner and Samuels put up 1,925 yards and 16 touchdowns in 2018. Bell had 1,946 total yards and 11 touchdowns in 2017. Oh James Conner Jersey , and Conner and Samuels did it at a tenth of the price and an even smaller fraction of the drama.“We didn’t know what the situation with Le’Veon was going to be last year,” Samuels said. “We just had to come to work every day like he was going to show up. Now that he’s not here, we’re going to do the same thing. Just going to push even harder because we know the pressure is on us. We’ve got to get the job done.”One they’re focused on doing together.While Conner made the Pro Bowl after running for 973 yards and a dozen touchdowns and adding 497 yards receiving, he also missed time at various points because of minor injuries. Samuels — a rookie fifth-round pick last fall — filled in capably, including a memorable performance in a victory over the New England Patriots in which he racked up 172 total yards.Conner spent a portion of the winter bulking up in an effort to hold up better under the wear and tear of a 16-game season. His biceps and his shoulders look as if someone inserted a hose into them and just started puffing away, not stopping until his arms and neck appear to be bursting out from under his shoulder pads.“I don’t know what’s going on with him,” Samuels said with a laugh and a shake of his head.Conner is reluctant to discuss specifics about how much weight he’s added. He’s also reticent to declare himself the starter. Entering his third year as a pro, he’s become well-versed in how fast life can come at you in the NFL. He joined the Steelers as a third-round pick in 2017.Sixteen months later he found himself lining up behind quarterback Ben Roethlisberger when Bell opted to work on his music and his tan rather than sign his franchise tag and show up for work.Still, all those yards and all those touchdowns didn’t stop Pittsburgh from taking Snell in the fourth round of the draft following a record-breaking career at Kentucky. Conner didn’t take it personally. This is how things work.“Coach (Mike Tomlin) told us a while ago that he’s trying to replace us every year,” Conner said. “Didn’t mean that in a bad way. Doesn’t mean we’re not doing our job. It’s just you know, there’s always a young buck up and coming. You’ve seen the talent that Jaylen got. Seen the talent that Benny has. All those guys are talented, really good running backs.”Samuels excelled catching passes out of the backfield at North Carolina State — where he left as the school’s all-time leader in receptions — and spent the offseason refining his route running.The Steelers are looking for ways to have Conner and Samuels on the field at the same time, even if that means moving Samuels into more of an H-back role that would allow him the freedom to move around in search offavorable matchups.“We’ve both got unique skillsets https://www.thesteelerslockerroom.com/authentic-terrell-edmunds-jersey ,” Samuels said. “James can do a lot of running and I can do a lot of catching but we can also feed off each other. That was just Year One. Year Two we hope to build off that, exceed and make some noise.”They’re not the only ones. left after breaking every important rushing record in school history. He didn’t panic when he didn’t hear his name called until the third day of the draft. He knows how well the Steelers develop mid-round picks. The rise of Conner and Samuels offers tangible proof.“Those are my guys, those are my brothers,” Snell said.A bond they will lean on as the post-Le’Veon Bell era begins, one more focused on sharing the burden rather than hogging the ball or the limelight.“It’s bigger than making plays on the field,” Conner said. “Like, football is like a game of life. So the friendships and the relationships we have off the field, it helps us on the field. Everything is not just competition and who can make plays on the field. It’s important to be a good person, have good character.”