Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson was telling reporters last week how excited he was about his defensive-end rotation. Johnson named six players who figure into the mix, as the Birds conclude their final workouts today and adjourn until training camp at Lehigh begins in July.

Jerome McDougle, the 15th selection in the 2003 draft, was not among the six D-ends Johnson named, which is kind of the way McDougle's career has gone, from the complicated hip, knee and ankle injury that ruined his rookie season so many years ago, to the 2005 gunshot wound that might have forever altered his football prospects, to the triceps tear that cost McDougle the 2007 season and probably wrote him out of the Eagles' plans for good.