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COACHES CAPSULES<br />

MATTHEW HARPER<br />

Assistant Special Teams<br />

4th year in Philadelphia<br />

JUSTIN PEELLE<br />

Tight Ends<br />

4th year in Philadelphia<br />

PRESS TAYLOR<br />

Offensive Quality Control/<br />

Assistant Quarterbacks<br />

4th year in Philadelphia<br />

• Enters his fourth year in Philadelphia<br />

and returns as the team’s assistant special<br />

teams coach, a position he held from<br />

2013-14 before transitioning to assistant<br />

defensive backs coach in 2015<br />

• In 2014, the Eagles ranked first in Rick<br />

Gosselin’s annual Dallas Morning News<br />

special teams ranking<br />

• Worked as a coaching intern and graduate<br />

assistant at Oregon from 2009-12<br />

• Played two seasons as a safety at Oregon<br />

(2006-07) after transferring from the City<br />

College of San Francisco<br />

• Son of two-time Nebraska All-America DE<br />

and 11-year NFL vet Willie Harper<br />

TIM HAUCK<br />

Safeties<br />

1st year in Philadelphia<br />

• Begins his first season on the Eagles<br />

coaching staff, but previously played for<br />

Philadelphia as a safety from 1999-2002<br />

• Served as the defensive coordinator and<br />

CBs coach for UNLV from 2013-14<br />

• Enjoyed a 13-year NFL playing career and<br />

appeared in 183 regular-season games.<br />

Totaled 357 tackles, 16 PDs, six FFs and<br />

four FRs. Also excelled on special teams<br />

and logged 162 career tackles<br />

• Played in 51 games for the Eagles and<br />

logged 158 tackles on defense and 47<br />

tackles on special teams. Started alongside<br />

Brian Dawkins in 1999 and finished<br />

second on the team with 122 tackles<br />

• Was a two-time first-team All-American<br />

safety at Montana<br />

GREG LEWIS<br />

Wide Receivers<br />

1st year in Philadelphia<br />

• Hired in the 2016 offseason, the former<br />

Eagles wide receiver returns to Philadelphia<br />

to coach the position that he played<br />

for the Birds from 2003-08<br />

• Served as an offensive assistant with the<br />

New Orleans Saints in 2015 after coaching<br />

WRs in the college ranks for three years<br />

• Originally entered the NFL in 2003 with<br />

the Eagles as an undrafted player out of<br />

the University of Illinois<br />

• Recorded 136 catches for 1,879 yards and<br />

eight TDs in Philadelphia and helped the<br />

Eagles reach four NFC Championship<br />

Games. Caught a 30-yard TD from QB<br />

Donovan McNabb in Super Bowl XXXIX<br />

• Enters his second season as tight ends<br />

coach after spending 2013-14 as the Eagles<br />

assistant tight ends coach<br />

• In 2015, helped Zach Ertz set career highs<br />

in catches (75) and receiving yards (853)<br />

• Played TE for 10 seasons in NFL with San<br />

Diego, Miami, Atlanta and San Francisco.<br />

Caught 123 passes and 12 TDs<br />

• Drafted in 4th round in 2002 by Chargers<br />

from Oregon, where he finished with 70<br />

career catches and 14 scores and was a<br />

four-time All-Pac 10 Academic selection<br />

DUCE STALEY<br />

Running Backs<br />

6th year in Philadelphia<br />

• Worked with RBs DeMarco Murray and<br />

Ryan Mathews in 2015, helping the duo<br />

become the first Eagles teammates to<br />

notch six-or-more rushing TDs in a season<br />

since 2003. Also helped Mathews rank<br />

4th in the NFL in yards per carry (5.08)<br />

• In 2013, helped All-Pro RB LeSean McCoy<br />

become the first Eagle to lead the NFL in<br />

rushing and scrimmage yards since 1947<br />

• Worked first two seasons in Philadelphia<br />

as an assistant special teams coach, while<br />

helping with the running backs<br />

• Gained 5,785 yards during his 10-year<br />

NFL career with Philadelphia (1997-2003)<br />

and Pittsburgh (2004-06)<br />

• A third-round pick of Eagles in 1997, ranks<br />

5th on team’s all-time rushing list. Is one<br />

of three Eagles to top 200 yards rushing in<br />

a game (Steve Van Buren and McCoy)<br />

• Won a Super Bowl with Pittsburgh in 2005<br />

• His Eagle teammates voted him offensive<br />

MVP three times (1998, 1999, and 2002)<br />

JEFF STOUTLAND<br />

Offensive Line<br />

4th year in Philadelphia<br />

• In his three seasons with the Eagles, has<br />

coached three Pro Bowl players: Jason<br />

Peters, Jason Kelce and Evan Mathis<br />

• Coached one of the best offensive lines in<br />

the nation at Alabama from 2011-12, including<br />

2013 draft picks Chance Warmack,<br />

D.J. Fluker and Barrett Jones<br />

• Helped Crimson Tide to a National Championship<br />

victory over Notre Dame in 2012<br />

• Also coached successful offensive lines at<br />

Miami, FL (2007-10), Michigan St. (2000-<br />

06), Syracuse (1999) and Cornell (1993-96)<br />

• Enters his fourth season in Philadelphia<br />

with the added responsiblity of assistant<br />

QBs coach after serving as an offensive<br />

quality control coach from 2013-15<br />

• Brother, Zac, is the offensive coordinator/<br />

QBs coach at the University of Cincinnati<br />

• Spent two years as a reserve QB at Marshall<br />

after transferring from Butler Community<br />

College, where he led school to<br />

two JUCO championships (2007-08)<br />

CORY UNDLIN<br />

Defensive Backs<br />

2nd year in Philadelphia<br />

• A 13-year NFL coaching vet, enters his<br />

second season in Philly as DBs coach<br />

• In his first year with the Eagles, S Malcolm<br />

Jenkins earned his first career trip to the<br />

Pro Bowl. Also helped former Eagles DB<br />

Walter Thurmond make a transition from<br />

CB to S. Helped the Birds rank 10th in the<br />

NFL in takeaways (26) and INTs (15)<br />

• Spent three years with the Denver Broncos<br />

prior to arriving in Philadelphia and<br />

worked with three Pro Bowl DBs in 2014 -<br />

Aqib Talib, Chris Harris Jr., and T.J. Ward<br />

• Also had NFL coaching stints in Jacksonville,<br />

Cleveland and New England<br />

DINO VASSO<br />

Defensive Quality Control/<br />

Assistant Secondary<br />

1st year in Philadelphia<br />

• Enters first season with the Eagles after<br />

serving as a coaching assistant with the<br />

Kansas City Chiefs (2013-15). Worked primarily<br />

with the secondary in Kansas City<br />

• A four-year DB at the University of New<br />

Hampshire, he started 51 consecutive<br />

games and earned 1st-team AFCA<br />

All-American honors as a senior (2010)<br />

• A native of Crum Lynne, PA, lettered in<br />

football at Ridley H.S. in Folsom, PA<br />

CHRIS WILSON<br />

Defensive Line<br />

1st year in Philadelphia<br />

• Enters his first NFL season after coaching<br />

23 years in the college ranks. Held positions<br />

at Missouri, USC, Georgia, Mississippi<br />

State and Oklahoma among others<br />

• Coached Jets DE Leonard Williams at USC<br />

and worked closely with Eagles Pro Bowl<br />

DT Fletcher Cox at Mississippi State<br />

• Played collegiately at Oklahoma where he<br />

recorded 303 tackles. Was a 12th-round<br />

draft pick of the Chicago Bears in 1992

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