The Eagles will open Chip Kelly’s third preseason the weekend of Aug. 13-17 against the Colts at the Linc.
Exact times and dates will be announced soon, but the Eagles on Thursday announced their four preseason opponents and the sites of those games.
The Eagles will also be home the weekend of Aug. 21 or Aug. 22 against John Harbaugh's Ravens and finish with road games against the Packers in Green Bay the weekend of Aug. 27-31 and against the Jets, coached by former Eagles defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, Sept. 3 or Sept. 4.
The regular-season schedule and the remaining preseason details are expected to be released later this month.
The Ravens and Jets are frequent preseason opponents, but the Colts and Packers aren’t.
This will be the Colts’ first trip to Philly for a preseason game since 1991, when the Eagles finished the preseason with a 23-21 win over the Colts at the Vet. It also could be the first game for ex-Eagles Trent Cole and Todd Herremans' first game with their new team.
This will be the Eagles’ first preseason game vs. the Packers since 2002 and the first in Green Bay since 1983, when the Eagles won 27-14.
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The Eagles and Ravens last played in the preseason in 2011 at the Linc, and this will be the 13th preseason meeting since 1996.
The Eagles and Jets play virtually every preseason. This will be the 15th straight year the two teams have played and the 31st time in 31 years — they played twice in the 1992 preseason — once in Canton, Ohio, in the Hall of Fame Game and once at the Vet.
The Eagles and Patriots scrimmaged the last two summers before their preseason game, but the two teams don’t meet this year in the preseason, so the Eagles’ scrimmage plans aren’t clear.
Kelly said at the owners’ meetings in Arizona that the Eagles would only scrimmage a team they face during the preseason. So that narrows it down to the Ravens, Colts, Packers and Jets, although the Jets preseason game would probably be too late for the two teams to scrimmage during the days leading up to the game.
“Wherever we’re going to scrimmage, if we have an opportunity to scrimmage, it’s going to be who we’re playing in the preseason,” Kelly said. “It’ll all be based on what our preseason schedule is. We’re not going to train a team and we go to play whoever, Baltimore, and they play someone else. …
“It just happened when we looked at our schedule (last year), our schedule came out who we’re playing, that’s how everybody does it.
”When your schedule comes out, you say, ‘Hey, if we want to get together, which game do you want to get together? Let’s do it with this team.’ And then you talk to them and see if that’s something they want to do.
“Bill (Belichick) did it two years ago with Tampa and us, and then last year with Washington and us, because they played Washington first and us second. So all those get-together deals are based upon your preseason thing.”