Eagles News: “No one should be surprised if the Uar Bernard gamble works out”

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - APRIL 25: International Player Pathway athlete Uar Bernard celebrates after being chosen by the Philadelphia Eagles with the 251st overall pick in the green room during third day of the NFL football draft at Acrisure Stadium on April 25, 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images) | Getty Images Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles news and links … Albert Breer’s Takeaways: Why Steelers (and NFL Fans) Need Another Year from Aaron Rodgers – SI I can’t wait to see what the Eagles do with Uar Bernard. If you’re not familiar, Google him.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a human being like him. The 21-year-old Nigerian is listed as 6’ 5” and 306 pounds, and at his pro day, he ran a 4. 63 40-yard dash, posted a 39-inch vertical and broad-jumped 10’10”.

And when I say Google him, I’m not referencing those numbers. Click on the images tab and I’m telling you, you’ll be stunned that a 306-pounder can look like that. Philly took a flier on Bernard—who’s a part of the NFL’s International Player Pathway Program—in the seventh round of the draft, the same way they once took a flier on a freak athlete of a rugby player from Australia named Jordan Mailata.

Seven years after the Eagles threw a seventh-rounder at Mailata, who, like Bernard, had never played football, I sat with owner Jeffrey Lurie the day before Mailata started his second Super Bowl. He compared drafting Mailata to his beloved Celtics spending a top-10 draft pick on Larry Bird in 1978, knowing they wouldn’t get him until 1979. “This goes back a little to the Larry Bird example,” said Lurie.