At this time last year, David Molk was out of the NFL.

Now, he’s the starting center for the Philadelphia Eagles.

“From sitting around doing nothing (last year) to starting. That's quite the jump,” Molk told the Philadelphia Daily News.

Molk was inserted at center when Jason Kelce went down with an abdominal injury in the Eagles' 37-34 win over the Washington Redskins. Kelce will have sports hernia surgery, meaning he’ll likely miss at least two months.

Enter Molk.

“It'll be nice being with the group I'm going to play with, throughout practice, getting all the extra work the starters get,” Molk told the Daily News. “I don't think I can replace (Kelce), but what I can do is do everything I can do, put a great product on the field, help this team win games while Kelce's out.”

A seventh-round draft pick by the San Diego Chargers in 2012, Molk was eventually cut by the Chargers at the end of last year’s preseason.

The Eagles signed him before this season, and that move may turn out to be huge in the long run.

Molk performed quite admirably when Kelce went down.

“He's a competitor,” Eagles coach Chip Kelly told reporters. “I think he's extremely quick off the ball. He really gets into the defender very quickly. He'll fight you. He’s a tough, competitive guy in there and he'll scrap and give you everything he's got. So in the games he's gotten in, whether it be at guard or at center, I think he's really competed when he was out there.”

Pressed further, Kelly continued to praise Molk.

“Molk's good,” Kelly said. “He's not Jason right now just because he doesn't have the experience in our system. Molk's only been here a year, and Jason was here longer and through the whole system a year. So obviously, Jason's ahead of him from that standpoint. But Molk's a smart football player and understands what's going on out there. ... We didn't have any issues when Molk got in the game, and our system is driven that way. Our center makes the calls in terms of setting the front and making the directions in terms of where we're going, and that's how they're all trained. When the first guy is down, the second guy has to take over.”