Well, funny you ask. For many in the Eagles' locker room, their jersey numbers become part of their everyday lives, it becomes their identities. For others? It’s just the way it worked out.
“In high school, I was No. 5. When I was recruited by Stanford my head coach, David Shaw, texted me and said, ‘What number do you want?’ I didn’t care. He said that I reminded him a lot of Todd Heap (former Stanford and NFL tight end) so I was given No. 86 and it’s kind of stuck with me since then. When I was drafted here (in 2014) a tight end named Evan Moore had No.