From a football perspective, things have never come easily for Eagles third-year offensive lineman Matt Tobin, who entered both college and now the NFL with zero fanfare.
Tobin was a walk-on, 230-pound lineman at the University of Iowa, who never saw the field his first two years and paid his own tuition until his redshirt junior season.
"I paid for three years and got three semesters worth of scholarship," Tobin said earlier this week.
As an undrafted rookie free agent in 2013, Tobin appeared in one game for the Eagles that season. He made seven starts last year and is expected to make his second start of the season for the Eagles in Sunday's 1 p.