What’s that? Eagles news that isn’t an endless slew of rumors surrounding Carson Wentz? Impossible. The team announced on Tuesday afternoon that they’d claimed CB Shakial Taylor off of waivers from the New York Giants. Here is everything you need to know.
Whenever a new coordinator or Head Coach enters the fray, there is typically a run of players who have worked under them previously that follow suit. Taylor becomes the first in what could be a substantial line of players to have previously played under one of the new Eagles coaches.
Taylor entered the league in 2019 as a UDFA with the Indianapolis Colts, where he of course worked with Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon, who at the time was the teams’ DB coach.