It wasn't a revelation.

But Eagles fifth-r0und pick Ed Reynolds on Thursday got a serious taste of how much faster NFL practices are in person than they are on face time.

Face time a drag compared to real thing.

"I left here with the full playbook," Stanford product Reynolds said. "I can watch meetings, go through all the installs. I had time where I face-timed Coach (John) Lovett, my defensive backs coach and the special teams coach once or twice a week just to go over it if I had any questions about anything. But it’s completely different once you step out there on the field and everything is moving a lot faster like when you’re going through the slides. So today was fun, the first time back out there. But definitely a little farther than behind the other guys just with the mental reps of being out there and going through it."

Reynolds had been unable to practice due to NCAA rules.

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