Julio Jones raised his eyebrows when he heard the question in the Philadelphia Eagles’ locker room on Wednesday.

“Have left?” Jones said. “You just keep watching. I ain’t going to make no expectations. You just keep watching, and I can show you. We’ll revisit this question, all right?”

On Tuesday, the Eagles announced they had signed the 34-year-old seven-time Pro Bowl and two-time first-team All-Pro wide receiver, who had been an unrestricted free agent since March 15.

“The biggest thing for me is just to go out here and learn as much as I can right now,” Jones said, “and wherever the team needs me to fit in at, I’m willing to do. I’m a veteran. I can move around wherever the case may be.”

Jones is three seasons removed from his most recent all-star honor, and in each of the past three years, hamstring injuries have cost him seven games.

“Seeing him work out the other day,” Philadelphia coach Nick Sirianni said, “we were like, ‘Yeah, he’s still got a lot of pop in his legs,’ and we’re excited about it.”

Jones won’t be called upon to be the No. 1 wide receiver with Philadelphia, which has two who’ve been 1,000-yard receivers in AJ Brown and DeVonta Smith.

Jones said he still will approach the game the same way.

“My mindset is definitely to dominate,” Jones said. “Don’t get it twisted. I’m here to dominate. But I’m saying guys are already here, they’re solidified in their positions, so wherever they need me to go and be, I’m going to do that to the best of my ability.”

A former Foley High School and Alabama star, Jones joined the Eagles after Philadelphia placed former Athens High School standout Quez Watkins on injured reserve. With their No. 3 wide receiver off the active roster, the Eagles also didn’t have Smith on Wednesday, when he sat out practice with a hamstring issue.

“We’re a little banged up at wide receiver and just wanted to add some extra depth with another proven guy in there,” Sirianni said on Wednesday, “so (general manager) Howie (Roseman) and I, like we always do, watched different guys together. His name came up, we watched him together and it was pretty obvious. We thought when he was at Tampa last year, the film was good, and we were excited about the possibility to add him.”

Neither Jones nor Sirianni committed to a timetable for Jones’ Eagles debut.

“We’re going to go out there and move around a little bit,” Jones said, “and that’s their decision to do so.”

When the Eagles announced Jones’ signing on Tuesday, the team did not include that the wide receiver had joined the practice squad, which Wednesday’s NFL transactions report revealed. But even as a member of the practice squad, Jones could play immediately for Philadelphia because two practice-squad members can be activated to game eligibility each week.

“Make no mistake about it: This pass game is still going to go through DeVonta, AJ and (tight end) Dallas (Goedert),” Sirianni said, “so I think that’s a little bit of a difference – the role that he’s playing, more of a supporting role than a highlighted role. And we’ll see how it continues to shape up. But we still know he has the ability to make plays, and we’re going to need him to make plays, and we’ll see how that goes as things go on.”

Jones knows Smith from going back to Alabama to work out in the offseason, and he played with Brown in 2021 with the Tennessee Titans.

“AJ’s always been a little brother to me,” Jones said. “Now I have to lean on those guys to kind of show me the ropes.”

Jones also knows Philadelphia quarterback Jalen Hurts from offseason time spent in Tuscaloosa.

“He’s a guy that’s coming in, and he’s about his craft,” Hurts said on Wednesday. “Obviously, knowing where he comes from and knowing where his background resides, he has the mentality. He’s a future Hall of Famer. He’s as good as it gets, so he’s coming in with a great mentality, and a great person to add to this team.”

Jones called Hurts an “amazing talent. Still a younger guy, but amazing talent in everything he does. And he has a lot of ownership. He’s a competitor. He’s a leader. Everything you want in a quarterback.”

In addition to Smith and Hurts, Philadelphia has four more Alabama alumni on its roster – left guard Landon Dickerson, cornerbacks Josh Jobe and Eli Ricks and offensive lineman Tyler Steen.

“There’s quite a few,” Jones said of the Eagles’ Alabama corps. “We’re Philadelphia Eagles now. We’re going to hold ourselves accountable the way we do.”

The Eagles will square off against the Miami Dolphins in a showdown of one-loss teams at 7:20 p.m. CDT Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. NBC will televise the game.

Jones played in Super Bowl LI with the Falcons, but Atlanta lost to the New England Patriots 34-28 in overtime on Feb. 5, 2017.

“I love the game of football,” Jones said. “I always have. I have the passion and the drive. If it comes, it comes. But that’s always the main goal, right? But you got to play one game at a time. You don’t just jump to the Super Bowl, so we got to build each and every week. It’s a process to get there. That’s my drive each and every week and to have a better version of myself each and every week moving forward.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.