Eagles' Chip Kelly on Tebow: 'I've always been a fan'

Tim Tebow hasn't played in an NFL game since 2012, but that didn't stop the Philadelphia Eagles from bringing him in for a workout recently.

However, Eagles head coach Chip Kelly downplayed the workout's significance in an interview with NFL Network's Steve Wyche at the NFL Annual Meeting in Arizona.

"I've always been a fan of Tim," Kelly said. "We bring in a lot of players for private workouts, it's just he's the one that everyone keeps talking about. We brought in Terrelle Pryor for a workout and Thad Lewis in for a workout. When players are available for you to work them out it's the same thing of going to the Veteran Combine or going to the super regional combine.

"It's getting an exposure to a player so that when you have to make a decision and say, 'Hey, what are we going to do now. You say, I don't know anything about these players. Let's bring them in and work them out, and it may be too late at that point in time.' So all we're doing is just doing our homework."

Tebow, the 25th overall pick of the 2010 NFL Draft, went 8-6 in two seasons with the Denver Broncos.