PHILADELPHIA — In November of 2021, then-Eagles rookie edge rusher Patrick Johnson met Jalyx Hunt before the world knew Hunt’s name, never imagining that one day Hunt would join him in the Eagles’ pass rush rotation.

Johnson met Hunt through his high school friend, a teammate of Hunt’s at Cornell, in a hotel after Cornell beat Penn that November.

At the time, Hunt was a backup playing out of position, falling further from the radar of NFL teams.

“Jalyx said, ‘Oh, yeah, man, I play safety,’ and I was like, ‘Man, that’s a big safety,’” Johnson told NJ Advance Media on Wednesday.

Not Johnson, not Cornell’s coaches, not even a fortune teller could have predicted back then that Hunt would become an NFL starting edge rusher for one of the league’s best defenses, especially after spendin

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