The Eagles' DC was trying to light a fire under the third-year LB and it worked.
If Vic Fangio was trying to light a fire under Nakobe Dean, it’s mission accomplished with the Eagles’ third-year linebacker capturing the starting Mike linebacker position and the green dot for Friday night’s season-opener against the Green Bay Packers in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Whether White was ready to go or not, Dean was going to start against the Packers, according to multiple team sources, with Zack Baun set to handle the weakside spot. Dean missed most of last season with multiple foot injuries, the second of which required Lisfranc surgery. The former Georgia star was not fully cleared until minicamp and started slowly while ramping up this summer.
Some became far too focused on the fact that Fangio started White and Baun for 15 of the Eagles’ 16 summer practices at LB quietly missing the fact that Dean was getting a bigger volume of overall first-team reps in the final week of summer, the demarcation line foreshadowing Fangio’s sea change.
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