The Browns will travel to Philadelphia on Sunday looking to snap a three-game losing streak that has seen them fall to a 1-4 record.

A week after facing a talented dual-threat quarterback in the Commanders QB Jayden Daniels, the Browns defense will once again be tested by a player who has made a living making plays with both his arm and his legs in Eagles QB Jalen Hurts.

Hurts has the fifth-most rushing yards among quarterbacks so far this season – playing one game fewer than each of the four ahead of him as the Eagles had their bye week in Week 5. In each of the last two seasons, he's thrown for over 3,700 yards and led the Eagles to a 25-7 record, including a Super Bowl appearance.

"He's outstanding," head coach Kevin Stefanski said of Hurts. "He's a threat in a multitude of ways. Can make every throw, has made every throw. They have talented players on the perimeter, they have a talented tight end. He's a part of their [run pass option] game, when it's not there, he can pull it down and run. So, he just operates really well, whether there's pressure or no pressure."

Pressure has seemed to affect Hurts as a passer this season. When comparing his performance under pressure to his performance in a clean pocket, Hurts’ passer rating drops by 27 points and his completion percentage drops by over 32 percentage points.

Per the NFL’s NextGen Stats, Hurts saw a season-high 18 pressures in the Eagles' most recent game, a Week 4 loss to the Buccaneers. Hurts completed just 60 percent of his passes for 158 yards and two total touchdowns and was sacked six times – tied for a career high dating back to his rookie season.

Against the Buccaneers, the Eagles were missing their talented wide receiver duo in A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith as well as two-time All-Pro RT Lane Johnson. Brown, Smith and Johnson were all full participants for Wednesday's practice.

Brown and Smith had a combined 2,522 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns last season and are one of the most lethal receiver duos in the NFL.

"Their ability to get open, their route running, what they do with the ball after they catch it, [yards after catch] ability, they're two great receivers that could do everything on offense," WR Jerry Jeudy, who played with Smith at Alabama, said of the duo on Wednesday.

Brown has been out since the Eagles opening game, suffering a hamstring injury against Green Bay. Without Brown, the Eagles offense has averaged just over 17 points per game with a 1-2 record.

Johnson's absence has also been notable. The two-time first-team All-Pro was ranked 41^st in the NFL Top 100 list released before the season – the third-highest ranking of any offensive lineman. Hurts' passer rating drops nearly 15 points in games played without Johnson at right tackle.

"I mean, he's an All-Pro, been in the league for 12 years," DE Za'Darius Smith said. "He's a veteran, man. He knows different types of moves of guys and he studies film, too, so, just gotta go in the game with your fastballs. You can't relax with him. You have to be direct when you're rushing against Lane."

Running behind Johnson and the Eagles offensive line is RB Saquon Barkley. Entering the 2024 NFL offseason, there were questions about where Barkley would land for the 2024 season. The Eagles won out, and his addition is already paying off.

Through the first four games of the season, Barkley has 435 rushing yards, 85 receiving yards and five total touchdowns. His six yards per carry are the fourth-highest in the NFL and his ability to be explosive is on full display with 10 rushes for 10 or more yards.

Stefanski compared Barkley's running style to that of four-time All-Pro Adrian Peterson, who Stefanski spent time with while the two were in Minnesota.

"[Barkley] is a player that we have a ton of respect for," Stefanski said. "You know how dangerous he is with the ball in his hands. He has a unique running style and how he jump cuts but he also has the speed to hit that gear."

Missed tackles have been an issue at times for the Browns defense, and against a player like Barkley, limiting his ability to run after first contact will be important in stymying the Eagles offense.

"Our mission, first and foremost, is to be able to make the tackle with the first guy – specifically, the linebacker, specifically me. Taking better angles, making sure that we wrap up, grabbing the body part, doing anything we can," LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah said on Wednesday. "But obviously, we also preach 'run to the ball' and that's something that we're improving on."

The Browns have allowed the second-most runs of 10 or more yards in the NFL this season. They allowed 54 such plays in 2023, but already have given up 23 this season – seven of which came last week against the Commanders.

Barkley has turned missed tackles into big plays all season, with three runs for over 30 yards and two for over 50 yards. Owusu-Koramoah said that the Browns would focus this week on both conditioning as well as positioning so that one missed tackle doesn't turn into an explosive play.

"We'll do a little bit more conditioning as a defense here probably this week, just to make sure that all of our guys are running, linebacker corps included," Owusu-Koramoah said. "And just being able to be there for our brothers. That's what it is, you know? If I'm my brother's keeper, I have his back. So, when we have one brother who's trying to fly around the field, he may miss a certain tackle or take a bad angle, so we'll have guys there to clean it up."