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Glenn Erby

LOOK: Highlights, photos from the sixth annual Eagles Autism Challenge

The Saturday morning rain in Philadelphia didn’t stop the over 4,500 riders, runners, and walkers from participating in the sixth annual Eagles Autism Challenge presented by Lincoln Financial Group.

Eagles Autism Challenge was born out of Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie’s vision in 2018 – autism’s growing prevalence encouraged him to use his platform to inspire change. Since the inaugural event, Eagles Autism Foundation has raised more than $22 million for care and research – a record-breaking $6.2 million (and counting!) came from this year alone and donations through the end of May will increase those totals.

“We created this as our philanthropic priority off the field and with Jeffrey’s vision and support, we don’t have an identity crisis,” said Executive Director of the Eagles Autism Foundation Ryan Hammond.

“We know what we’re doing. We’re taking this responsibility for the now 1 in 36 people affected by autism. This is a meaningful connection to our team on every level – we have more than 25,000 donors this season.”

The event featured the Wawa Classic 30-Mile and Wawa Shorti 10-mile bike rides, the FreedomPay 5k run and Sensory Walk.

A.J. Brown had the biggest scare of the day when a speeding car nearly hit Philadelphia’s All-Pro wide receiver while approaching a stop sign.

Here are highlights and photos of the event.

A.J. Brown

(Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

Jason Kelce

(Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

Nakobe Dean

(Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

A.J. Brown

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Jason Kelce

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DeVonta Smith

Mandatory Credit: Michael Chow/The Republic via USA TODAY Sports

Kickoff party

Mandatory Credit: Maria Lysaker-USA TODAY Sports

Eagles

Eagles

(Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)

Rob Keustner NBC 10

(Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)

A.J. Brown

Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports

The Eagles All-Pro was nearly hit by a car running a stop sign, but he only dropped his phone.

JH

(Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
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