Eagles’ Jordan Mailata: An Aussie Who Can Play Football & Sing Like An Angel

Sure, Jalen Hurts can sprint 20 mph while carrying the ball, and Patrick Mahomes can throw the football 65 yards from his knees, but can either of them astonish the judges on “The Masked Singer” by singing Sheeran’s “Perfect” while disguised as Thingamabob? The Eagles’ 25-year-old left tackle Mailata can and did, making him the Super Bowl 2023’s most skilled player.

Eagles’ Jordan Mailata: An Aussie Who Can Play Football & Sing Like An Angel

On Sundays, Eagles left tackle Jordan Mailata beats opponents’ edge rushers with more than just his size; he also has some significant vocal prowess. The 25-year-old Australian native is well-known for more than just his on-field performance; he also frequently grabs attention as a vocalist.

Mailata’s route to the NFL was highly fascinating, and in 2021 she first gained notoriety for belting out Chris Stapleton’s Tennessee Whiskey during a team meeting. His teammates were awestruck.

The 6-foot-8, 365-pound mauler spread his talent across the country almost a year later. Okay, sort of.

In the first round of the seventh season of Fox’s popular singing competition “The Masked Singer,” Mailata sang Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect.” The judges stood up as a result.

While Mailata’s time on The Masked Singer didn’t last more than two weeks, his vocal talent was no longer a secret. Everybody knows he can sing and, boy, can he sing!

Mailata’s Journey To NFL

Six years ago, Mailata was pursuing a professional rugby career in his own country while getting up at 4:30 in the morning for jobs as a supermarket stock boy, scaffolder, carpenter’s helper, demolitionist, and “anything could pay the bills.” A time traveller telling him that his life was heading towards a four-year contract guaranteeing $40.8 million and his 44th career NFL start Sunday against the Chiefs with an anticipated audience of about 200 million viewers would have made him laugh because he had never played a down of football and didn’t care to understand the rules.

At Condell Park, in the Bankstown neighbourhood made up primarily of low-income families from Lebanese, Arabic, and Pacific Islander populations, Mailata attended school for his final six years among roughly 600 other pupils.

The NFL, though? It was only part of the conversation for laughter.

Friends of Frappell and Mailata went to see “The Blind Side,” a 2009 film based on Michael Oher, a football player who by chance entered the league due to his stature. The late-blooming fast learner known as “Big Mike” was selected and started at left tackle in Super Bowl 50.

Jordan was frequently referred to as “Big Mike,” according to Frappell. “He disliked it somewhat. Don’t call me that, he would snort while laughing. I find it unbelievable that he chose to play that position and that he would participate in the Super Bowl.

How exactly did Mailata get there? He had undergone emergency surgery to treat a cardiac problem that had led him to faint during rugby practise when he was 17 years old. After quitting athletics for a year, he returned to the field, but the continual jogging wore down his physique. It was suggested by regional agents that a power-based sport would be a better match.

Since its inception in 2016, the IPP has admitted 31 players from 11 different nations, just two of whom have been selected in the NFL Draft and five of whom have participated in an NFL regular season game. Rugby player Mailata, who played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, has an unteachable mix of bulk and quickness.

“I burned myself out my rookie year just learning the playbook,” Mailata said. “I said to myself, ‘When I get to my hotel, no more football.’ Be where your feet are. It’s truly how I survived.”

Mailata is not yet singing next to his teenage favorite Bon Jovi — like Kessegian envisioned he might one day — but he and fellow Eagles offensive linemen Jason Kelce and Lane Johnson did just release an album of Christmas songs.

Mailata teamed up with fellow Philadelphia lineman Lane Johnson and Jason Kelce earlier this year to demonstrate his talent. Because it was a limited release, they recently released a Christmas record, which is now fetching over $200 on ebay.

“It brought us closer together,” Mailata said, “but it was also kind of nice to peel back the athlete layer and show that we have other talents.”

In addition to having a powerful voice, Mailata is also so athletic that when the Eagles first picked him, they were unsure of what to do with him. He was even thought of as a running back.

Jordan Mailata joined the NFL’s International Player Pathway Program in 2017 and played football for the first time after figuratively outgrowing his rugby position. Six years later, he started for the league’s finest squad and released a holiday album. Amazing life!

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