Rick Lovato Profile

Arryn Siposs and Ty Zentner will battle it out at punter in Training Camp? Who will win the starting job?

Rick Lovato worked at the family business while keeping his NFL dreams alive. Now, he's one of the best at his position in the league.

Guard Brandon Brooks, defensive tackle Fletcher Cox, tight end Zach Ertz, center Jason Kelce, and long snapper Rick Lovato were selected to represent the NFC.

The long snapper reflects on how his parents helped support him before he landed his big break with the Eagles.

Just how many personnel losses can Dave Fipp's special teams units sustain and continue to win every week? The latest is Chris Maragos, who was placed on Injured Reserve after suffering a knee injury last Thursday in the win over Carolina ...

This 3-1 start has been a total team effort, all 53 players on the roster and then some (read: Jake Elliott, Kenjon Barner), and the encouraging aspect is that the Eagles don't yet think they've played their best football ...

A little trade secret: Not all of the facts and nuggets that we write or speak about in various forms of media come from reporters' brains. Some, maybe a lot, come from something like the Postgame News and Notes package put together each week by John Gonoude of the Eagles' media relations department. It's great stuff, and worthy of a deeper dive today ...

We look ahead, because that's what you do in the NFL. Heal for a few hours after a loss, address areas to correct, and then look to the next opponent. The Giants come to town on Sunday as the Eagles open their Lincoln Financial Field schedule, and there are significant things to build upon here ...

For a few of them, the NFL life is very stable, very happy, and while it's always filled with stress, it has some stability built in. David Akers, for example, played for 12 seasons as an Eagle, was one of the best in the business and in fact goes into the franchise's Hall of Fame during the October 23 game against Washington at Lincoln Financial Field ...

Questions, questions. We all have them about the 2017 Eagles and Sunday's game at Washington will go toward answering them. Some of them, anyway. The Eagles are healthy and eager to get things rolling at FedEx Field. Here are five questions to consider with the opener ahead ...

In the course of an Eagles career that started in 2006 and spanned 162 consecutive games until a wrist injury ended his 2016 season, Jon Dorenbos reinvented what a long snapper could be. He was more than that for the Eagles, as he established a nationally powerful personal brand and gave of himself to the organization in every way possible ...

The fourth game of an NFL preseason has a different feeling, obviously. There are players who feel they are one or two plays away from securing a spot on a roster. There are players who understand the odds and the significant stakes at hand. And there are players who will never play in a football game again ...

The first piece of roster-building business was a significant one: Locking up emerging tight end Zach Ertz to keep a piece of their young core in place, with much more work to be done ...