Eagles Sign 3 Undrafted O-Linemen as Le'Raven Clark Moves to IR; Scouting Reports

PHILADELPHIA – Rookie minicamp opened for the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday and ran through Saturday. Perhaps lost in the excitement of that was Le’Raven Clark’s trip to injured reserve.

It was a rare IR move made in May, and Clark’s injury or how it happened isn’t known. What the move does, however, is give the Eagles some roster flexibility going forward. It also shines a spotlight on three players the Eagles signed as undrafted free agents. Three of the seven UDFAs are offensive linemen.

As for Clark, his future is uncertain. He has battled injury throughout his career and didn’t play last year. Still, he is 6-5, 310 pounds, and was a solid depth piece at tackle.

Until whenever, or if ever, he returns, the Eagles moved on nicely, as expected, because everyone knows they love to keep their offensive line filled to the brim and expose whoever they have up front to the teaching of line coach Jeff Stoutland.

The Eagles drafted Trevor Keegan and Dylan McMahon last week and signed Gottlieb Ayedze, Anim Dankwah, and Laekin Vakalahi as undrafted free agents. The Eagles also added Mekhi Becton, signing the New York Jets’ first-round pick in 2020 on April 29.

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There had been a report that indicated Becton would be given time to transition to right guard. Head coach Nick Sirianni addressed that possibility on Friday.

“We obviously have a lot of time to figure out who the top five guys are,” he said. “He’s played tackle, obviously, as everybody knows. He’ll start there and then we’ll see what happens.”

Four of the top five are known: Jordan Mailata, Lane Johnson, Landon Dickerson, and Cam Jurgens. It’s the fifth guy, probably the right guard, that needs to be identified.

There’s also the depth that will need to sort itself out.

Here’s a closer look at the three offensive linemen they added in the undrafted free-agent process.

LAEKIN VAKALAHI: He is the most intriguing of the group because maybe he will be the next Mailata, if only because he doesn’t have any football experience. He was born in New Zealand but raised in Australia.

There is plenty to like about this potential diamond-in-the-rough. He doesn’t have Mailata’s size, but he’s plenty big enough at 6-5, 318 pounds, has 35-inch arms, and, perhaps best of all, he has been given a roster exemption, so he doesn’t count against the 90-player active roster limit. If he shows any progress at all, he isn’t going anywhere but up.

GOTTLIEB AYEDZE: He had a fifth or sixth-round grade on him coming into the draft. The Eagles did plenty of homework on him during the pre-draft process. The 6-4, 208-pound Ayedze spent four seasons playing left tackle at Frostburg State in Western Maryland before transferring to Maryland for one season, where he played right tackle.

ANIM DANKWAH: He has great size at 6-8, 353 pounds, and played 33 games at tackle for Howard, where he was first-team All-MEAC for three straight seasons.