AP

The Eagles running game showed signs of life for the first time this season during Sunday’s 24-17 victory over the Jets and that predictably led to questions for coach Chip Kelly on Monday about how the team’s running backs would be deployed in the coming weeks.

DeMarco Murray missed Week Three because of a hamstring injury, opening the door for Ryan Mathews to run for 108 yards on 25 carries. Mathews, who also caught a touchdown, had just four carries in the first two weeks of the season while Murray was running 21 times for 11 yards, which led to a question about whether Mathews should be the No. 1 back when Murray is back in the lineup.

“I have no idea,” Kelly said, via the Delaware County Daily Times. “I mean, that’s not a concern for any of us. So we don’t really think about it. I could have two guys go down on Saturday, so he might be one of them going down. So he won’t get any carries.”

Kelly did compliment Mathews’s work in the victory and said that he likes “his style in terms of how it fits with what we’re doing” on offense. Kelly then made it clear that he likes how Murray and Darren Sproles fit into what they’re doing on offense as well.

“No,” Kelly said. “DeMarco fits into what we’re doing and Ryan fits into what we’re doing and so does Sproles. So I hope that, God willing and the pope can bless us again, all three of them will be available to us on Sunday against the Redskins.”

Whoever is running the ball for the Eagles in Week Four, the team needs to be more consistent offensively than they were against the Jets. They turned in some solid work while building a 24-0 lead against a good Jets defense, but that was totally absent as the Jets worked their way back into a game they may have pushed to win if Ryan Fitzpatrick didn’t throw three interceptions.