In his first day of camp, Jeremy Maclin did exactly what you would expect of a guy at his first NFL practice. He went all-out during the drills when he was called upon, but other than that he kept to himself and just tried to learn.
You could tell that while the other guys were going before and after him, that he was paying special attention to anything they were doing and anything the coaches were telling them.
Coach Pinkston took a special interest in Maclin, speaking to him several times after he’d run a pattern, or just standing on the sidelines. I’m not sure if he was told to do this, or if he just took it upon himself, but Pinkston hovered over Maclin throughout the entire practice.
In his first drill of 1-on-1, Maclin lined upon against Byron Parker. He ran a straight fly, no jukes or anything like that, just ran straight at the snap of the ball, and absolutely left Parker in the dust.
The pass was thrown over the wrong shoulder, so he was unable to make the catch, but he had at least three steps on Parker almost immediately. His next time, Maclin beat Demps to the middle for a nice catch and run.
Maclin was showing the blazing speed that the Eagles expected, running away from guys and making guys who are supposed to be fast look heavy-footed.
In the team drills, Maclin ran with the second group of receivers. Curtis was not at practice because the 30+ club had off, so the first group was DeSean Jackson and Hank Baskett, with the second group consisting of Maclin and Reggie Brown.
During the team drills, Maclin beat Jack Ikegwuonu to the inside for a touchdown in the back of the endzone.
The one negative I would say about Maclin today is that he didn’t seem to finish his routes. When he knew the ball wasn’t coming his way he wouldn’t run a crisp route, or wouldn’t continue to run the corner away from the play. He would jog, or lightly run, before trailing off at the end of the route.
