Daily News | ‘Nasty streak in him’: Eagles draft pick Cam Jurgens is a mauler whose athleticism is the difference maker
When Cam Jurgens arrived on Nebraska’s campus in 2018, he was a highly recruited tight end who had zero intentions of snapping the football.
The Eagles selected Jurgens with the No. 51 pick in this year’s NFL draft. At 6-foot-3 and 303 pounds, Jurgens is undersized for a center prospect. However, he possesses a similar build to 12-year veteran and four-time All-Pro center Jason Kelce . “Really, when we moved him there — he didn’t know what he was doing at first,” Frost said. “But you could still see it. That’s how good of an athlete he is. It was never doubting what type of player he was. We just wanted to get him onto the field and get him comfortable with the position so the athlete inside him could take over.
Second-year left guard Landon Dickerson, who was thrust into a starter role less than one month into his rookie season, offered some advice for Jurgens: “Got to be ready to learn every day and get better. You’re going to make mistakes. Can’t let it weigh down on you. Take it on the chin, keep moving forward.”Jurgens launched his own beef jerky company, cleverly called Beef Jurgy.
Asked of his initial impressions of his new position coach, who’s widely viewed as one of the top assistants in the league, Jurgens said of Stoutland: “He has a lot of energy. I don’t want a coach to sugarcoat things. I want to know how it is. I want to know if I’m doing something right, something wrong. That’s how I want to be coached. We’ve went over a lot of the offense. He taught me it, quizzed me [on] it, and went over to see how I did things at Nebraska and how we do it here.
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