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Rookie safety Drew Mukuba returned to practice on Sunday afternoon as the Eagles began their week of prep ahead of Thursday night’s opener against the Cowboys.

Mukuba, 22, pulled his left hamstring on the penultimate day of training camp on Aug. 19. Late last week, the rookie was working on a side field with trainers.

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The day before Mukuba got hurt in training camp, he took almost all of the first-team reps with the starting defense and it looked like he might be overtaking Sydney Brown for that starting job. But then he missed time and Brown has overall gotten many more snaps with the first-team defense this summer.

There are at least a couple of positions that might seem unsettled

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