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 are back from London, looking to leave the disappointment of a last-second defeat behind while choosing instead to focus on lessons they can learn from a third straight loss. And you know what? The Inquirer’s Jeff McLane actually thinks there were encouraging takeaways from the game, outcome aside. He and Mike Sielski discussed why the Eagles’ sky, despite being gray, isn’t falling just yet, and what the team can build on to if it hopes to reverse its fortunes during a key stretch of the schedule that begins Sunday. Listen here.
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