Nolan Smith is carrying the torch now, but the shoes, he knows he can't fill those. Not Brandon Graham's.

"I would never do that," the Eagles' succeeding edge rusher told the media during OTAs at the NovaCare Complex on Tuesday . "BG's, like, too great of Philly, and the more I go on in Philly, the more that he does, you just can't do that. I can just try my best to imitate that, and just bring that juice and bring that energy every day like he does."

But at the end of the day, he needs to be himself. It's what Graham told him to be coming into the NFL as a rookie two years ago, and what the Eagles are going to be banking on as a bigger part of their defensive front this coming season.

Because they won the Super Bowl last year with Graham returning from a torn triceps to retire on to

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