Carter, 23, said he slept through his alarm and was late to a team meeting. “I’ve got to respect the decision, I came in late and I have to take full responsibility for that," he said Friday.

They’re all 1st-round picks, they all played at Georgia, they’re all 23 or 24, they’re all in their second or third year and they’re all struggling.

#Eagles DT Jalen Carter didn’t start or play in the first defensive series against the Falcons because he was late for something team-related last week, NFL sources told The Inquirer. Carter was on the field for the second series and, overall, played 46 of 61 snaps on defense —…

Philadelphia's top defensive player did not start against Atlanta after being late to a team-related commitment.

Jalen Carter was absent from the field for the Eagles’ defense during the Falcons’ first offensive possession during Monday night’s heartbreaking loss — and now it’s evident as

Davis and Carter, especially, were pegged as one of the NFL’s elite young duos in the NFL entering 2024. The Eagles are going to need more from these two if the team’s going to fix what has been among the NFL’s worst overall defenses through two weeks:

When the Philadelphia Eagles drafted Jalen Carter with the ninth overall pick in 2023, there were some off-the-field concerns about the Georgia star. The discipline issues and the lawsuit he was dealing with were perhaps contributing factors to why Carter fell all the way to the Eagles.

Jeff McLane of the Inquirer reported shortly afterward that Carter was actually benched due to a team infraction, which involved being late to a team event earlier in the week. Th

Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter was noticeably absent at the start of Monday night’s game, and we now know why. Carter started in Week 1, but he was not on the field for the Eagles’ first defensive series against the Atlanta Falcons at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.