Eagles players don’t fly first-class on the team’s chartered flights. If anyone could get Doug Pederson to upgrade the plane, the players had recently decided, it was Malcolm Jenkins, the locker room’s unofficial spokesman.
When the playoff-bound Eagles wanted to wear pads in practice again, it was Jenkins who approached Pederson. When some of the players felt slighted by the Eagles coach’s comments following last season’s loss at the Bengals, it was Jenkins who spoke up. When the locker room wants this, that or the other thing, the safety is typically the messenger.
And he often gets his way.