{"id":805656,"date":"2026-03-11T03:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/805656\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:39:52","slug":"riq-woolen-was-the-missing-piece-in-the-eagles-secondary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/805656\/","title":{"rendered":"Riq Woolen was the missing piece in the Eagles\u2019 secondary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Immediate reactions to the move were excitement and appreciation for what he\u2019ll add to the cornerback room alongside Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean. The group instantly becomes one of the \u201cstickiest\u201d in the league, and should compensate for any drop off from losing guys like Jaelan Phillips and Nakobe Dean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Even former Eagles captain Darius Slay was supportive of the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s what reporters and insiders from around the league were saying about this signing by Howie Roseman and Co. and how Woolen will fit into the Eagles\u2019 secondary:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Immediate reactions to the move were excitement and appreciation for what he\u2019ll add to the cornerback room alongside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,6,242,109,5406,24295,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-805656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-news","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-free-agency","15":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116208466194128199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805656","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=805656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}