Eagles center Cam Jurgens suffered a back injury late in the 2024 season that affected him for the club’s postseason run to winning the Super Bowl and required surgery. That, in turn, caused him some issues in 2025.
But the two-time Pro Bowler has now undergone another procedure that has him feeling better as the offseason program start date draws closer.
In an interview on the Bussin with the Boys podcast, Jurgens said his back is “getting better every day” after undergoing a stem cell treatment in Colombia earlier this offseason. He added that he’s “noticing a difference” since getting back home.
“It takes a little bit for the stem cells to kick in,” Jurgens said, via Jeff Neiburg of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
While Jurgens received an epidural to play in Super Bowl LIX — which the Eagles won over the Chiefs — then underwent surgery to fix the disc in his back that, he said, had broken off before the playoffs and “wrapped around” his sciatic nerve.
“It was hard to walk,” Jurgens said. “I don’t know how I was playing. It was easily the worst month of my life, but also the best month of my life because we won the Super Bowl.”
But now, Jurgens said, he’s in a position to be more like himself on the field.
“It takes a good year to come back from that,” Jurgens said of his first back procedure. “I’m starting to feel really good.”
The NFL is not currently considering any proposals to ban the tush push, but Competition Committee Co-Chairman Rich McKay says the legality of the play could continue to be the subject of discussions around the league.
“I don’t know that it’s the end of the debate,” McKay said. “I think there’s still people who are concerned with the whole pushing element.”
McKay added, however, that the play might decline in part because defenses are getting better at stopping it. In fact, McKay said the league’s data shows that the success rate on traditional quarterback sneaks is now higher than the success rate on the tush push.
For now, McKay said the league’s priority is making sure the play is officiated as consistently as possible, including blowing the whistle at the right time on a play where it’s often hard to identify when forward progress has stopped.
The tush push is here to stay.
The NFL has released all the 2026 rule change proposals, and none of them address the tush push, which last year was the subject of a fierce offseason debate.
It’s still possible that some team could propose a rule against the tush push, but there appears to be no momentum for it. Any rule change needs 24 teams to vote for it, and when last year’s proposal to ban the tush push fell two votes short, that may have ended it.
There was some talk that the NFL might consider a broader rule against teammates aiding a ball carrier, but no such rule was proposed this year. There is already a rule prohibiting pulling a runner, but pushing a runner is legal.
The Eagles made the tush push famous and have been the team to use it most frequently and most effectively, although defenses were more successful stopping it in 2025. Other teams also use the play, and from all indications it’s not going anywhere.
The Eagles are signing free agent wide receiver Elijah Moore to a one-year deal, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports.
Moore, who turns 26 this week, spent last season with the Bills and Broncos.
He played nine games with two starts in Buffalo, making nine catches for 112 yards, before the team released him Nov. 26. Moore joined the Broncos, who elevated him from the practice squad for the AFC Championship Game, where he caught one pass for 4 yards.
The Jets made him a second-round pick in 2021, and he spent two seasons in New York before two seasons with the Browns.
In his career, Moore has 209 receptions for 2,274 yards and nine touchdowns.
The Eagles are re-signing offensive lineman Fred Johnson to a one-year deal, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media.
Johnson, 28, spent the past three seasons with the Eagles, playing all 51 possible games with 14 starts.
He signed with the Jaguars in the 2025 offseason, but after he didn’t earn a starting role, the Eagles traded for him in August.
In 2025, Johnson started a career-high eight games and played a career-high 626 offensive snaps.
Johnson played three seasons for the Bengals and one for the Bucs before landing in Philadelphia. He has appeared in 79 games with 22 starts in his career.
He has played guard and tackle in the NFL.
