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Meet the 2024 Philadelphia Eagles defense

September 4, 2024

Aug 3, 2023; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Nakobe Dean (17) and cornerback Darius Slay (2) during practice at Novacare Complex. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports

Edge
Josh Sweat
Your guess is as good as anyone's as to what we'll see from Sweat this season. His 2023 was a wild story of two halves. From Weeks 1-9, he was on pace for his second-straight double-digit sack season with 6.5 sacks in nine games along with 16 quarterback hits. In the final nine games of the season, he had just 1.0 sack, coming in the ugly playoff loss, while dropping down to eight quarterback hits.
It's reasonable to give Sweat something of a pass for that drastic dip in production. For one, the defense around him was collapsing. It's also easy to point to his increase in snaps as explanation for him running out of gas. Sweat played 795 regular-season snaps in 2023, 175 m...

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