Daily News | Brandon Graham is an NFL survivor, and he still means a lot to the Eagles
Brandon Graham had never torn his Achilles tendon before, so once he did, he wasn’t certain what had happened to him, what he was feeling in the lower part of his left leg, and why he was feeling it.
To say that Graham has been through a lot over that time, done a lot, seen a lot, is to understate the matter to the point of absurdity. He withstood not being Earl Thomas, whom the Eagles could have drafted and didn’t. He withstood his former defensive line coach Jim Washburn, who didn’t like Graham and whom Graham didn’t like.
“Then you’ve got to get back on your feet, and you’ve got to work. And it really taught me again, even from when I hurt my knee, I had a test during that time of ‘How bad do you want it? You want to come back, right?’” Yes, his role in Jonathan Gannon’s defense promises to be different from what he has been accustomed to later in his career: multiple fronts, sometimes a 4-3, sometimes a 3-4, sometimes Graham down with his hand on the ground, sometimes Graham upright as if he were back playing linebacker in Billy Davis’ defense from 2013 to 2015. “I love that we do both,” he said.