{"id":272275,"date":"2025-08-08T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/272275\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:19:09","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-found-hidden-nfl-gem-at-wide-receiver-with-undrafted-rookie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/272275\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles found hidden NFL gem at wide receiver with undrafted rookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\/news\/philadelphia-eagles-hidden-nfl-gem-wide-receiver-undrafted-rookie\/93c6ec9428c0e8b8f5112b7b?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia Eagles found hidden NFL gem at wide receiver with undrafted rookie;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia Eagles found hidden NFL gem at wide receiver with undrafted rookie<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Eagles continue to have an insane knack for evaluating talent and making their already-stacked NFL roster even better.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The latest example of this came during the team&#8217;s opening preseason matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals and it became very clear that Howie Roseman and Co. have stumbled upon yet another incredibly capable wide receiver.<\/p>\n<p>Darius Cooper was an undrafted free agent that the Birds took a chance on this offseason after coming out of small Division 1 program Tarleton State.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cooper not only exhibited that he can hang with the backups in the team&#8217;s preseason win Thursday but that he may be able to push for a roster spot and playing time once the regular season rolls around for the Super Bowl champions.<\/p>\n<p>The 23 year old finished the night as Philly&#8217;s top receiver with the most targets, catches, yards and hauled in a touchdown pass from backup quarterback Tanner McKee.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This is just another positive sign for an Eagles offense that already has immense weapons on the outside with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\/news\/aj-brown-drops-epic-quote-philadelphia-eagles-defend-nfl-lombardi-trophy\/dcf2d03a8f35816537cee553\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:A.J. Brown;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">A.J. Brown<\/a> and Devonta Smith, while also throwing in the best running back in football with Saquon Barkley at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Hurts and the offense could now have stumbled on another target that spreads the ball around the field even more, and if he keeps up his strong summer it&#8217;s very likely that Cooper will be in the mix for a roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>MORE EAGLES NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles found hidden NFL gem at wide receiver with undrafted rookie originally appeared on The Sporting News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[8694,228,11885,227,256,2296,39200,5640,33052,7,492,6,109,1040,894,1840,52799,2821],"class_list":{"0":"post-272275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-a-j-brown","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-brian-baldinger","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","13":"tag-cincinnatibengals","14":"tag-darius-cooper","15":"tag-devonta-smith","16":"tag-eagles-offense","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-jalen-hurts","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","21":"tag-roster-spot","22":"tag-saquon-barkley","23":"tag-tanner-mckee","24":"tag-tarleton-state","25":"tag-undrafted-free-agent"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114994529249236579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}