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Did the Eagles Tip Their Hand to Draft Selection with Proposed Rule Change?

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Mar 1st, 2023 · 12:30 PM EST

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We wrote about the Eagles proposing a 4th and 15 play in lieu of an onside kick earlier this week. They actually proposed another rule that didn’t get much pub, via Jeff Kerr at CBSSports.com:

0 allowed on jerseys: With the jersey number rules relaxed in recent years, the Eagles proposed a jersey modification that would allow the No. 0 on jerseys. The NFL allowed this number prior to the merger and the NCAA allowed the No. 0 on teams’ jerseys in 2020.

Now why would the Eagles be concerned about allowing the #0 on jerseys? Is it because they plan on drafting someone who wore that number in college? Someone like DB Christian Gonzalez, who is going #6 in Todd McShay’s latest mock draft? –

Does Howie have some intel that Gonzalez might fall to the 10th pick, and he told him he’d do him a solid and propose the new rule? It’s entirely possible. You look good, you feel good. You feel good, you play good. You play good, they pay good. Nothing looks better than an Oregon Ducks jersey. Imagine Christian Gonzalez’s number 0 POPPING in the Kelly Greens.

Could make football sense too, if the Eagles want to move off the Darius Slay contract:

Christian Gonzalez can do it all🔥 pic.twitter.com/l6D68re2dT

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