Eagles to take a look at Kentucky defensive end

Jun 9, 2009 - 9:42 PM PHILADELPHIA(AP) -- Former Kentucky defensive end Jeremy Jarmon is expected to work out for the Eagles in hopes of being selected in the NFL supplemental draft.

Jarmon acknowledged in May he had been declared ineligible for his senior season by the NCAA because he tested positive for a banned substance. He said the result came from a dietary supplement, but has not publicly disclosed the substance.

The NCAA penalty for testing positive is the loss of one year of eligibility, effectively ending Jarmon's college career.

He was expected to arrive in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening to work out on Wednesday.

Jarmon has graduated from Kentucky with a political science degree. He'll also hold a pro day workout on July 9, one week before the supplemental draft on July 16.

Any team that makes a pick in the supplemental draft will forfeit a corresponding pick in the 2010 draft. If the Eagles were to use a fourth-round pick on Jarmon, for example, they would forfeit their fourth-round pick in the 2010 draft.

Jarmon told a Kentucky newspaper that he has told NFL teams what the positive test was for and said they should have no worries about taking him.

"I told the NFL teams I called that I don't even have a speeding ticket," Jarmon told the Lexington Herald-Leader on Monday. "If they take me, they are not going to have any off-the-field problems."

The Eagles did not bolster their defensive line through the draft or free agency this offseason. They also have nine picks in the 2010 draft, including an extra third-round pick from Seattle, an extra fifth-round pick from New Orleans, an extra sixth-round pick from Indianapolis and a pick to be determined from the New York Jets.

At least three NFL scouts said that if Jarmon would have been able to return to Kentucky for his senior year he had a chance to be drafted in the first two rounds of the 2010 draft.

In three years for the Wildcats, the 6-foot-3, 279-pound defensive end recorded 17 1/2 sacks, third-most in school history. The past two years he also had 23 1/2 tackles for losses. Jarmon also dropped into pass coverage at times last season and had six pass breakups.

He was chosen second team All-Southeastern Conference the past two seasons.

The Eagles' current group of defensive ends include Pro Bowl player Trent Cole, veterans Juqua Parker and Victor Abiamiri, pass rusher Chris Clemons and second-year player Bryan Smith, who did not play as a rookie.