Eagles 2nd-round pick Eric Rowe recalls 1st encounter with Chip Kelly

Eric Rowe's first encounter with Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly wasn't exactly a comfortable one.

During the Senior Bowl in January, players practice during the day and meet with NFL teams at night. Kelly was among the seven Eagles representatives present for Rowe's meeting, and Rowe quickly realized the coach was all business.

"When they were really asking me questions, he would just lean back in his chair just writing down everything I said," Rowe recalled to Sheil Kapadia of PhillyMag.com. "And I was like, 'What is he writing? Am I saying something wrong?' He didn't even budge a smile at me. I tried to crack a joke, just nothing. I was like, 'Man, this guy's tough.'"

Rowe may not have realized it at the time, but he won Kelly over. After the Eagles traded up to select the former Utah cornerback in the second round of this year's draft, he met with Kelly a second time, and saw a much different side of the coach.

"He was excited, happy, cracking smiles, joking with me," Rowe said. "I was like, 'This is a totally different guy than I first met.'"