Each year during Philadelphia Eagles training camp (usually after the first 10 practices), we poll the Eagles' media contingent on which players have looked good so far throughout camp, and which ones have not looked so good.
For this exercise, I asked 18 Eagles media people, all of whom have attended every practice (or close enough to it) to identify one player whose stock is up, and one whose stock is down. We normally poll around 30-40 folks for this exercise, but attendance was limited this year, for obvious (COVID) reasons.
Stock up
On the stock up front, nobody ran away with it this year, as 11 players received votes:
| Stock UP | Votes |
| John Hightower | 4 |
| J.J. Arcega-Whiteside | 3 |
| Deontay Burnett | 2 |
| Corey Clement | 2 |
| Jack Driscoll | 1 |
| Elijah Holyfield | 1 |
| Desean Jackson | 1 |
| Jalen Reagor | 1 |
| Elijah Riley | 1 |
| Nickell Robey-Coleman | 1 |
| Josh Sweat | 1 |
For full disclosure, my vote was for Hightower, though I was torn between him and Arcega-Whiteside. For me, Hightower had a simply outstanding camp, as he far exceeded any expectations one should have of a fifth-round rookie.
Here are the players in the past that have gotten at least four "stock up" votes:
| Year | Players with at least 4 "stock UP" votes |
| 2017 | Marcus Johnson (13), Nelson Agholor (4), C.J. Smith (4) |
| 2018 | Kamu Grugier-Hill (4), Matt Pryor (4) |
| 2019 | Sidney Jones (10), Miles Sanders (7) |
| Stock DOWN | Votes |
| Sidney Jones | 11 |
| Nate Sudfeld | 2 |
| Genard Avery | 1 |
| Jordan Mailata | 1 |
| Jason Peters | 1 |
| Anthony Rush | 1 |
| Michael Warren | 1 |
Nate Sudfeld got two votes, which was a mild surprise. His stock was down when the Eagles drafted Jalen Hurts in the second round of the NFL Draft, but in my view, while Hurts is clearly more talented, he didn't outplay Sudfeld in camp.
Here are the players in the past that have gotten at least four "stock down" votes:
| Year | Players with at least 4 "stock DOWN" votes |
| 2017 | Patrick Robinson (14), Shelton Gibson (10) |
| 2018 | Corey Nelson (7), Isaac Seumalo (5), Chance Warmack (5) |
| 2019 | Clayton Thorson (9), Jordan Mailata (7), Mack Hollins (5), Stefen Wisniewski (4) |
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Robinson had one of the worst starts to camp that I've ever seen, but he got better as the summer progressed and ended up becoming one of the best slot corners in the NFL that season, making a HUGE play in the NFC Championship Game along the way.
Otherwise, our stock down picks have been very predictive of bad seasons.
- Shelton Gibson played in five games as a rookie, catching two passes.
- Corey Nelson got cut before the end of camp.
- Isaac Seumalo got benched Week 2.
- Chance Warmack actually got into nine games in 2018. He didn't wreck any games, but he wasn't good, either.
- Clayton Thorson was a fifth-round pick who got cut.
- Jordan Mailata still hasn't appeared in an NFL game.
- Mack Hollins was useless as a receiver in 2019 before the team dropped him in-season.
- Stefen Wisniewski got cut. (He did go on to start for the Super Bowl-winning Chiefs).
So, for the most part, like most Philadelphians, we can identify a bad player when we see one.
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