When the Philadelphia Eagles chose Nebraska’s Cam Jurgens in the second round of the 2022 NFL Draft, the selection seemed intended to secure the successor to Jason Kelce.
That time has come. After 13 seasons as the Eagles’ center, Kelce announced his retirement earlier this month.
But will Jurgens be Philadelphia’s center in 2024?
Will Dickerson spend that contract at left guard or might he follow Kelce?
In the Eagles’ final game of the 2023 regular-season, Philadelphia gave Kelce a second-half rest before the playoffs, and Dickerson worked at center for 33 snaps.
“For us right now, him retiring throws a wrench in things,” Dickerson said during a Wednesday appearance on “The Jim Rome Show,” “until we get to OTAs and we can start getting out there as a team and figuring out what the best five guys on that line is going to be. I think that’s the biggest thing is the staff and the players, we want to put the best guys out there to have the best guys playing, so for us it’s really we don’t know right now.
I’m sure there’ll be a lot of testing different combinations of people. We still got that draft coming up and acquiring other guys, so there’s no telling by the time mid-April rolls around what the team looks like, so really it’s just kind of a wait-and-see what combination works best when we get there.”
Whoever replaces Kelce will be following a six-time All-Pro at the position.
