It is being reported that the EAGLES have signed FA Chris Clemons and looking at what he is done, this could be huge and another sign the EAGLES will be playing more and more of a 3-4.
Here is a bit about him:
At this point in a long and dreary season, the Oakland Raider with the most sacks isn't Derrick Burgess or Warren Sapp or even Kirk Morrison. It's Chris Clemons. Go figure.
This could either be construed as a good thing (unheralded young player emerges) or a bad thing (what's wrong with everybody else?).
Clemons didn't even play last season after being cut by the Washington Redskins. Picked up as a free agent by the Raiders, he made the team only because he was able to play both defensive end and linebacker. And he didn't get any significant playing time until Tommy Kelly went down for the season.
Yet all of a sudden, the Raiders seem to have a Dwight Freeney on their hands. Despite being used primarily on special teams and as a third-down rusher, the 6-foot-4, 240-pound University of Georgia product has five sacks among his 13 tackles.
In a way, he's like Jack Cust of the A's, another Oakland athlete who either strikes out or hits a home run. Clemons has just 29 tackles as a pro, and 10 of them are sacks.
The Raiders actually picked him up as a linebacker, but he was impressive when they experimented with him on the edge. After all, Indianapolis' two feared, undersized ends -- Freeney and Robert Mathis -- aren't any bigger.
Against the Vikings, Clemons had two sacks and forced a fumble. He gets to the quarterback in a hurry and apparently knows how to line up so the other team doesn't pick him up. Part of that no doubt comes from Clemons' experience on special teams, where he learned to find open lanes while trying to block kicks.
So where has this guy been? Hurt, a lot of his time in the NFL. He missed most of one season with a torn ACL and was cut by the Redskins because of injury problems.
EAGLES to sign Chris Clemons**EDIT SIGNED
EAGLES to sign Chris Clemons**EDIT SIGNED
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