Cooper DeJean signs with Red Bull — and gets a Mini Cooper with a giant can to drive around practice
DeJean will make his first appearance as a Red Bull athlete on Saturday at the Red Bull Championship Run at Spruce Street Harbor Park.
A bird is nothing without its wings, and Eagles defensive back Cooper DeJean now has a historic partnership to give him his.
DeJean was announced as the newest athlete for Red Bull on Thursday, ahead of the Red Bull Championship Run on Saturday at Spruce Street Harbor Park, where DeJean will make his first appearance as a Red Bull athlete.
In honor of the announcement, Cooper was gifted a Mini Cooper, complete with the Red Bull branding and a giant can of the energy drink on top, which he then took for a test drive on a football field.
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The 23-year-old is the first Eagles player and the first defensive back to team up with Red Bull.
While DeJean is the sixth NFL player to join the brand, he’s one of just two active players, joining Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown. Lions quarterback Jared Goff was also once in partnership with the brand in 2018.
Previous NFL players included Reggie Bush, Devin Hester, and DeMarcus Ware, while most of Red Bull’s football profile extends into the college market with Texas’ Arch Manning, Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith, Oregon’s Dakorien Moore, and Team USA women’s flag football player Izzy Geraci.
Saturday’s Championship Run features participants racing up a greased telephone poll with the goal of capturing a flag, or what DeJean and Eagles fans would consider an average celebration on Broad Street.
The Eagles’ first-stringers get little to no action in exhibition games, annual joint practices with other teams become one of the few opportunities for starters to get preseason reps of consequence. This year, the Eagles traveled to New England for two days of live workouts with the Patriots. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jeff McLane and Boston Sports Journal’s Greg A. Bedard recap what they saw, and explain why, even after the joint practices, the Eagles still haven’t shown much of an identity. Listen here.
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