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Mike Sielski of the Philadelphia Inquirer believes the Eagles are sending a message by potentially playing starting linebacker Mychal Kendricks in the fourth preseason game.

What's going on here? Kendricks sat out the Eagles' first two preseason games with a hamstring injury then was on the field in the fourth quarter of Saturday's victory over the Indianapolis Colts - you know, the fourth quarter, with the backups and the maybes and the never-will-bes. Now, per Pederson, Kendricks might suit up against the Jets. Weird. Or perhaps not so weird.

"He hasn't played. He hasn't played," Pederson said. "We want to see him get game and live reps. That's the bottom line."

That's a strong sell there by a first-year NFL head coach. But it appears Kendricks will be the only prospective Eagles starter to play against the Jets, and having him do so smacks of the sort of message-sending test of an athlete's mettle seen at all levels of sport. If the Eagles were a high school basketball team, Kendricks would be running suicides after practice with the jayvees. If they were a high school swimming team, he'd be cleaning the pool after a meet. It's difficult not to see this decision as an indication that this new coaching staff is trying to ... shall we say ... encourage Kendricks to play through nagging, soft-tissue injuries that he might not have played through in the past.

Nelson Agholor will sit on Thursday, meanwhile, despite some struggles this preseason. As Andrew Kulp of CSN Philly writes, head coach Doug Pederson believes Agholor is "right on track with where he needs to be."

Any assertion that Agholor is "on track" is debatable. The 2015 first-round pick has just two receptions for 30 yards in preseason action. To make matters worse, he's also dropped three passes, including a costly deflection that went for an interception against the Colts on Saturday.

Minimal production and lapses in concentration plagued Agholor throughout last season, and there's little evidence those issues are behind him. Regardless, Pederson sounds unconcerned.

"Every day he comes out here and puts in a quality day's work," Pederson said. "He works extremely hard, and I've seen what he can do in practice.

Eagles receiver Josh Huff says he has his wife to thank for his big game against the Colts over the weekend. Josh Paunil of PhillyMag has the story.

Her message? Since I began watching you play, I’ve never seen you this timid. Ever.

Josh Huff took the conversation to heart, and he hauled in two passes for 60 yards in the Eagles’ 33-23 win over the Colts, adding a 9-yard touchdown run on the ground culminating in his best game of the preseason.

“She was right. I was playing timid. I wasn’t having fun. With her telling me that, I had to make some changes within myself, and I was able to come out here and have fun with my teammates,” Huff said. “I think that’s the biggest thing missing for me in the past: Just having fun. I was taking it too much as a business, and that took away from me having fun.

"A lot of [my improved play] goes to my wife. She saw that I wasn’t playing like myself and she was able to tell me. I just had her in the back of my head the whole game, and it was fun."