Professional days are over, all that’s left within the draft course of is for groups to complete up their 30 visits, finalize their draft board, after which spend two weeks hotboxing the media. Within the NFL the place there may be smoke, there isn’t all the time fireplace.
Tasseography
Lately the Eagles prospect visits had been largely a group of early to mid first spherical skills. This 12 months they’re extra targeted on gamers projected to be late first to second spherical choices, which after all makes plenty of sense since they’ve three picks between 22 and 53.
OT Brandon Coleman, TCU
OT Travis Glover, Georgia State
OT Tyler Guyton, Oklahoma
G Cooper Beebe, Kansas State
G Christian Mahogany, Boston Faculty
G Zak Zinter, Michigan
WR Brenden Rice, USC
WR Ainias Smith, Texas A&M
DT Khristian Boyd, Northern Iowa
EDGE Laiatu Latu, UCLA
EDGE Marshawn Kneeland, Western Michigan
EDGE Chop Robinson, Penn State
LB Edgerrin Cooper, Texas A&M
LB Jaylan Ford, Texas
LB Trevin Wallace, Kentucky
CB Cooper DeJean, Iowa
CB Andru Phillips, Kentucky
CB Decamerion Richardson, Mississippi State
This seems just like the go to record of a staff hoping to draft an offensive lineman, a nook, a linebacker, and an edge rusher this 12 months. It doesn’t appear to be a staff that’s aiming to commerce up, or possibly that’s what they need you to suppose. Nor does it appear to be a staff that appears to be drafting a cornerback excessive. Or possibly that’s what they need you to suppose too. Smokescreen?
This week’s Prospect Of the Week
If studying tea leaves inform us one factor, sticking your fingers within the air to guage the best way wind is blowing may inform us one other.
Numerous mock drafts have the Eagles taking Nate Wiggins. It’s an extreme quantity of mock drafts which have this. Of the 44 mock drafts since April 1st logged by Mock Draft Database the place Wiggins is offered at 22, half, (fittingly 22) have the Eagles taking Wiggins. That simply makes me assured that Wiggins is not going to be the decide, if he’s even on the board. Have a look at the go to record above, the one 1st spherical defensive again they’ve met with has been DeJean, who was solely this week cleared for soccer exercise. If DeJean was in a position to take part on the Mix or his professional day, possibly they don’t even have him in.
The idea that Wiggins will even be on the board appears a bit daring to start with. Most of the time three CBs are passed by twenty second general. In two weeks another person would be the prospect of the week for the Eagles. Cooper DeJean and Kool–Support McKinstry took their turns. My guess is the following one might be Graham Barton as mock drafters shift their focus to the Eagles taking an offensive lineman who they suppose can plug in at RG and finally transfer to RT.
It’s all the time an ideal 12 months to not want a QB
Solely 4 quarterbacks within the NFC East are at present beneath contract for 2025: The Eagles trio of Jalen Hurts, Kenny Pickett, and Tanner McKee, and… Daniel Jones. That’s it, that’s the record. Jones is not going to be on the Giants in 2025, so actually it’s simply the Eagles who’re safe in the meanwhile. The Washington Soccer Staff Commanders are positively drafting a QB. The Giants may/ought to be drafting a QB. The Cowboys, who the hell is aware of.
It’s fairly attainable that two of Jayden Daniels, who loves getting blown up by defenders when he runs and he runs lots; Drake Maye, who lists each Mitchell Trubisky and Daniel Jones as his mentors; or JJ McCarthy, who wasn’t actually allowed to throw the ball, might be within the NFC East this 12 months.
Possibly we’re wanting on the NFC East as a division in step with the AFC North and AFC West the place in the event you don’t have a QB you don’t have any likelihood to win the division. Or possibly we’re a rerun of the height of the Andy Reid period the place the Eagles had an enormous benefit of enjoying in a crap division with largely crap QBs. The Cowboys had Quincy Carter, WASTEAM had Patrick Ramsey, and the Giants had cromulent Kerry Collins.
With 4 first spherical QBs on this draft, and historical past signifies that two of them, if no more, will in all probability be busts. If these busts wind up within the NFC East, the Eagles may simply have the division to themselves for a short while.
Nobody is aware of something about QBs, and it’s all the time an ideal 12 months to not want a QB.
