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Eagles All-Pro center (adorably) trashes his kids

By Bruce Ewing | Last updated 7/22/23

It’s official. Eagles center Jason Kelce is actually a giant teddy bear. After a summer of chugging beer and eating donuts for charity at the Jersey shore, Philadelphia’s perennial Pro-Bowler enjoyed a friendly game of peek-a-boo with his children at the team’s practice facility.

In the video below, Kelce uses a trash can to have some fun with daughters Wyatt (3) and Elliotte Ray (2). After hiding each of his girls under the bright yellow trash can (which to be fair probably just holds footballs) the 6-foot-3, 295 pound offensive lineman tried to hide himself with the can.

Can't wait to see more moments like this at #EaglesCamp #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/UrevYqfXQb
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) July 19, 2023

He obviously failed but the kids certainly enjoyed the effort. The team enjoyed the interaction as well, adding they can’t wait to see more moments like that at training camp. Philadelphia opens camp on July 25 at the team’s NovaCare Complex.

It’s a good thing too. Had Wyatt or Elliotte Ray been born earlier, they’d be saying goodbye to dad for several weeks. Like most teams, Philadelphia used to hold training camps at off-site locations.

The first Eagles camp was held in Atlantic City in 1933. More recently it was held at Widener and West Chester University. When Kelce was drafted in 2011, training camp was held at Lehigh University.

But in 2013, then-head coach Chip Kelly moved camp to the team’s practice facility where operations remain today. Now all players on the team’s 90-man roster get to see their families and sleep in their own beds (unless they get cut).

Speaking of getting cut, Kelce’s youngest daughter Bennett was a nonparticipant in her father’s trash can drill, but seeing how she was born just 11 days after her dad played in Super Bowl LVII, we’ll give her a pass. Maybe next year, Bennett.

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