The Eagles hope Reno Mahe can restore some reliability to their return game when they play their home opener Monday night against the Washington Redskins at Lincoln Financial Field. To make room for Mahe on the roster, the Eagles released J.R. Reed, who had just signed with the team 10 days ago after Jeremy Bloom, who handled the bulk of returns during the preseason, was cut. Mahe was the Eagles' primary punt returner and kick returner last season, and he led the NFL in punt-return average in 2005. He became a free agent after last season, and the Eagles declined to re-sign him. When no other team signed Mahe, he decided to get on with the rest of his life by moving back to Provo, Utah, where he attended Brigham Young University. "I was able to go back to Utah and position myself to do some really good things," Mahe said. "As far as life after football, I felt as if I was doing just fine. I was in the process of putting together a group home for troubled youths, and I was talking with a station about doing a talk radio show in Utah County. That was only half of it. Now, everything is halted."