Allen Barbre at a radio show in 2013. Barbre says MHP products have helped him prepare for the 2014 season. Photo by Pete Lerro/contrastphotography.com

The Eagles have agreed to terms with offensive lineman Allen Barbre on a three-year contract extension that will keep him in Philadelphia through the 2017 season.

“Allen has great versatility and his ability to play both outside and inside on the offensive line makes him so valuable to what we do,” said Eagles head coach Chip Kelly. “He’s been in this league for a number of years and we know we can count on him to step up and fill in whenever he is called upon. When Jason Peters went down in Green Bay last season, Allen jumped right in and our offense didn’t miss a beat.”

A tackle with six years of NFL experience, Barbre has appeared in 47 games with seven starts during his career. He provided quality depth on the Eagles’ offensive line in his first year in Philadelphia, appearing in 15 games in 2013. Prior to arriving in Philadelphia, Barbre had appeared in 32 games, splitting time between Green Bay (2007-09), Miami (2010) and Seattle (2010-12).

Barbre recently stated the Eagles sports science helped him with his conditioning, especially the Eagles sleeping program, to being fresh at the end of the season.

“I think a lot of people don’t give stuff enough time doing it like as far as sleep,” Barbre said withiout any noticeable yawning. “Getting all that sleep is not going to help you the first two or three days. Throughout the season you are building up the sleep bank. It’s like (when you sleep long) you are putting a deposit every night for your body. I feel like it really helped us.

Barbre also credited his own training and MHP supplements.

“I take the “Dark Matter” after I work out, I drink the protein some (Up Your MASS, a weight gainer Probolic-SR, a protein shake) and I eat the protein pudding (Power Pak) when I need a snack and I take all the vitamins and a joint supplement every morning.”

Those vitamins are by name Activite Sport (multivitamin), Releve (joint supplement) plus MYO-X.

“Yeah, yeah I like it,” Barbre said of his supplement regiment. The Southwest Missouri resident said he needs to maintain a certain weight to be an effective and strong blocker.

“I’m not really into losing any weight. I weigh a lot more now than when I was in college and even in Green Bay, I was skinnier,” Barbre said then laughed when he realized a 300-pound-plus man was saying that. “I was barely 300 pounds. I have been able to put on some muscle mass and I felt like its helped my game.”

Formerly a fourth-round pick of the Packers in 2007, Barbre was a four-year starter at Missouri Southern State where he was named a consensus All-American, All-Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association and All-Region first-team selection as a senior in 2006. A native of Neosho, MO, Barbre and his wife, Callie, have one son, Knox.