Eagles fourth round draft pick Will Shipley, a running back from Clemson, was shaped by brotherly competition with his brother, James, a Penn lacrosse player.
James and Will Shipley are brothers, and brothers, especially the competitive types, sometimes settle things with a little physicality.James, two years older than Will, once beat his younger brother in a video game, probably FIFA, and Will grabbed a pull-up bar off the wall and swung it at James. He missed, but the wall suffered some damage.
“I think that mentality is kind of how we both drive ourselves today, this mentality that’s, like, how you do anything is how you do everything,” James said. “Any action you take, any activity you’re part of, give it everything you have. I think that definitely shows in Will in everything he does.”‘A generational talent’
Capone said he saw up close how James being there as an older brother helped Will. The two even started next to each other at safety. “That’s probably one of the things I hate the most. You get what you feel like is a generational talent and we didn’t get to coach him his senior year.” Asked why Will would make it in the NFL, when nothing is ever guaranteed in the league, especially for fourth-round running backs who stand at 5-foot-11 and 206 pounds, Capone pointed to the competitiveness. He said he showed his team the video clip of Eagles general managertalking about Will after the Eagles drafted him. Roseman mentioned the person and competitor. Capone said he’s never seen a competitor like Will, a point he’s trying to drive home to his current bunch.
“I’m sure anybody that gets a chance in the league is competitive, but Will finds something new to carry on his shoulder as a chip and uses that as extra motivation.”Eagles rookie CBs Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean getting better acquainted during minicampIf Capone got to coach Will that final high school season, he’d have gotten a guy who was probably in the best shape of his young life.
They turned it into the Shred Shed, a makeshift gym, and their mother, Tammy, even painted a logo on it.
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