Sheppard keeps quiet on crowded defensive backfield

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, July, 2008 | by Phil Anastasia Inquirer Staff Writer

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - For one day, Lito Sheppard was the second coming of the Silent Storm. Silent, because on a day when Brian Westbrook and Shawn Andrews made noisy news, Sheppard slipped quietly into the Eagles' training camp. Storm, because that's what could be brewing in the mountains if the Eagles' plan to fit three star-quality cornerbacks into two starting positions turns into the collision of high- and low-pressure systems.

"You never know how people are going to take things," cornerback Sheldon Brown said yesterday as veterans reported to camp at Lehigh University. Roynell Young, another cornerback, was the Eagles' original Silent Storm in the 1980s. But Sheppard, who had skipped minicamp, fit the profile yesterday, at least as far as the silent part. Westbrook, who...