Let’s get it back to the Eagles.

Today we’ve got a list of the NFL’s top 25 wide receivers at The Sporting News, which was brought to my attention by NJ.Com’s Zack Rosenblatt.

The top five of this list makes sense to me. They’ve got DeAndre Hopkins, Julio Jones, Michael Thomas, Odell Beckham Jr., and Antonio Brown in there. Rounding out the top ten it’s Keenan Allen, Davante Adams, JuJu Smith-Schuster, A.J. Green, and Adam Thielen.

I kept scrolling down the list, looking for Alshon Jeffery, and… nope. He’s not even on there.

Here’s what they came up with for 11 through 25:

• 11 – Stefon Diggs
• 12 – T.Y. Hilton
• 13 – Mike Evans
• 14 – Julian Edelman
• 15 – Robert Woods
• 16 – Tyler Boyd
• 17 – Tyler Lockett
• 18 – Jarvis Landry
• 19 – Amari Cooper
• 20 – Mike Williams
• 21 – Brandin Cooks
• 22 – Kenny Golladay
• 23 – Chris Godwin
• 24 – D.J. Moore
• 25 – Cooper Kupp

Hmmm… yeah…. I dunno.

Problem with Alshon is that he doesn’t light it up in the raw numbers department. He played 13 games last year, catching 65 balls for 843 yards and 6 touchdowns.

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Remember when the Patriots beat the Chiefs in overtime of the AFC Championship Game?

Remember how New England won a coin flip and took possession of the ball, then scored?

Remember how Pat Mahomes sat on the sidelines and didn’t even get into the game?

The Chiefs offered a proposal to change the overtime rules, but it’s not gonna happen:

Meanwhile, Kansas City’s proposal on overtime that would force both teams to have a possession was not voted on and does not have the support to go forward.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) May 22, 2019

It’s a dumb rule. I’m not listening to any arguments otherwise. There is no reason why both teams should not be given an offensive possession in overtime, and anyone who says, “WeLL tHe deFeNsE jUsT nEeDs to geT a StOp” gets muted, permanently banned from commenting on the issue. That stance is flimsy, because those two phases of the game are not equal, as I explained in this column from a few months back, after the jump:

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Judging by the video clips I saw on Twitter today, the Philadelphia Eagles are going 16-0.

DeSean Jackson looked good without any defensive backs covering him. Nate Sudfeld was excellent in handing the ball off. And Carson Wentz, without his knee brace, was a full participant, with no restrictions, in the OTA session.

“It felt great to get that thing off,” said the Birds quarterback, releasing a pronounced sigh of relief. “I felt good out there.”

So what went into the decision to take off the brace? Did he push for it? Did the medical staff give him the green light?

“Ultimately it was my decision,” Wentz said. “But just talking through it with everybody, we felt it was best going forward. The knee feels good; it feels strong. I feel better without it.”

Wentz says the plan is to go without the brace in games, so it looks like we’re moving forward sans brace for the foreseeable future. I know I joked about the OTA video clips above, which show players doing May repetitions against nobody in particular, but Carson honestly looks like he’s moving well here:

Check out this Carson Wentz footwork. Pay attention to the #LeftKnee. pic.twitter.com/coFhUY1q1A

— Bob Grotz (@BobGrotz) May 21, 2019

Here’s another clip of Wentz’s footwork in the “pocket,” after the jump:

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