Sydney Brown will remain on Eagles' PUP list into regular season

Brown tore his ACL late last season and is continuing to rehab from the injury.

BY JIMMY KEMPSKI
PhillyVoice Staff

KATE FRESE/FOR PHILLYVOICE

Sydney Brown.

Philadelphia Eagles safety Sydney Brown was placed on the PUP (Physically Unable to Perform) list prior to the start of training camp, and he'll remain on it for at least four regular season games. He will not count toward the 53-man roster until he comes off of PUP.

Brown tore an ACL in the 2023 regular season finale against the New York Giants, and is still rehabbing that injury. During training camp practices, Brown could be found standing well behind the action during team drills, engaged and taking mental reps. He also did sprints on a side field, and looked fast.

Brown was a core special teamer as a rookie in 2023 who only played 335 snaps in the regular defense, despite the team suffering many injuries at safety. He was buried on the depth chart early in the season behind Band-Aids like Justin Evans and Terrell Edmunds. He played 16 snaps the first three weeks of the season before missing three games with a hamstring injury. When he got extended action in games later in the season, it was typically out of position at slot corner, where he was filling in for Avonte Maddox and Bradley Roby, after guys like Mario Goodrich and Josiah Scott proved to be ineffective. 

Still, Brown showed promise as a rookie, with his highlight of the season being a 99-yard pick-six against the Cardinals.

The Eagles' top three safeties with Brown out are Chauncey Gardner-Johnson, Reed Blankenship, and Avonte Maddox.

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Bad news for Brown and for us but I guess not a huge surprise here. And I think this is why Bradberry made the roster? They knew they could buy themselves time by keeping Bradberry and perhaps finding a trade partner?

4 hours ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

Bad news for Brown and for us but I guess not a huge surprise here. And I think this is why Bradberry made the roster? They knew they could buy themselves time by keeping Bradberry and perhaps finding a trade partner?

That very well could be the strategy. However, Bradberry hasn't produced much impressive preseason tape as a safety. He's a class act. I'm grateful for his services. But I don't see him as viable trade bait. 

51 minutes ago, Erie said:

That very well could be the strategy. However, Bradberry hasn't produced much impressive preseason tape as a safety. He's a class act. I'm grateful for his services. But I don't see him as viable trade bait. 

And I don’t either but you just never know I guess? Or maybe his "versatility” allows us to trade say a Ricks?

23 hours ago, Erie said:

That very well could be the strategy. However, Bradberry hasn't produced much impressive preseason tape as a safety. He's a class act. I'm grateful for his services. But I don't see him as viable trade bait. 

For the record, I don't think the switch to safety here would have any effect on his trade "value." Other teams would most likely still view him as a vet corner with a lot of experience.

3 hours ago, brkmsn said:

For the record, I don't think the switch to safety here would have any effect on his trade "value." Other teams would most likely still view him as a vet corner with a lot of experience.

Fair. 

3 hours ago, brkmsn said:

For the record, I don't think the switch to safety here would have any effect on his trade "value." Other teams would most likely still view him as a vet corner with a lot of experience.

Agreed.  And while some may think he has no trade value because of how poorly he played last year, I'm sure teams will recognize the fact that the entire defense played poorly (not just him) and that he was 2nd team all pro the year prior (so basically more or less a victim of circumstances in 2023).  

That pick 6 highlight drives me insane. Great play.

The rest of the game the D sucked. Gave up like 35 points to a 4 win Cardinal team. I don't think the Cardinals punted the entire 2nd half. 🤮

Depth at safety and TE are a concern.