Peter King was in the Vegas draft room. The Raiders were hoping three QBs would go before them so they could pick one of their top four non-QBs — Paris, Witherspoon, Anderson and Wilson. They considered trading down to 12 with Arizona before they moved up to 6 with Detroit. They would have taken Anton Harrison. King also said by pick 19, their top four players left were Nolan Smith, Harrison, Mayer and Banks. They had Hyatt really high but kept passing on him because they didn’t need a receiver. 

4 hours ago, wussbasket said:

Took a shot at the depth chart as of now. Only Real challenge is the 4th RB position, and its insane that that's the biggest challenge. I would say the Eagles are pretty thin at WR and DE right now. If either Smith or Brown go down for extended time, that would be rough. DE I'm not too worried about since Williams, Street, and Ojomo could also play there.

 

Specialists? Makes for a few more tough decisions. Probably won’t carry 7 DTs.

4 hours ago, wussbasket said:

Took a shot at the depth chart as of now. Only Real challenge is the 4th RB position, and its insane that that's the biggest challenge. I would say the Eagles are pretty thin at WR and DE right now. If either Smith or Brown go down for extended time, that would be rough. DE I'm not too worried about since Williams, Street, and Ojomo could also play there.

 

Desperately need more depth at WR, LB, S and TE

So, is it my imagination but weren’t some of the Eagles UDFAs late to be announced last year as contracts were being negotiated?

Also this is typicality the time of year when Front Office shifts, contract expirations, new hires occur.  Wonder if we will see any with the Eagles this year.  There were lots of changes last year.

36 minutes ago, Blazehound said:

Desperately need more depth at WR, LB, S and TE

I think TE depth is fine. For the other three we need starters.

5 minutes ago, Infam said:

I think TE depth is fine. For the other three we need starters.

I agree. Not that I don’t think we can improve there but Goedert, Calcaterra, Stoll, Jackson isn’t awful and is a much lower priority. 

6 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

Albert Breer in a column weeks ago in a blurb about Jalen Carter said one NFL executive told him he wouldn’t be surprised if Howie wound up with Carter because he’s been in a Georgia kick lately and Howie gets obsessed with going back to the same well with schools once he falls in love with them.

I don’t think that executive even knew what Howie was in for this weekend.

Teams did this with Alabama for a decade and it was fine.

The best players often come from the beat schools. It's not like we took McIntosh, Smith, Quay Walker, Tindall, etc.

Howie took Carter because he was the best player in the draft at a high priority position.

This is awesome

 

3 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

This is awesome

 

Really happy with the Ricks signing. Don't understand why he wasn't drafted other than attitude.  

2 minutes ago, pgcd3 said:

Really happy with the Ricks signing. Don't understand why he wasn't drafted other than attitude.  

Whats the attidude? I havent heard.

After looking at him cover Smith, I went and read his scouting report on TDN. It sounds pretty much all good. You would expect this might be a 2nd or 3rd round player from reading it.

https://thedraftnetwork.com/sr-prospect/eli-ricks-e5d83e09-dbf8-481e-a038-89f21985a7ea/

We really might have something here.

LT backup and WR are the issues on O.  
 

On D the issue is LB with a question mark at S with the rookie needing to be productive 

2 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

Whats the attidude? I havent heard.

After looking at him cover Smith, I went and read his scouting report on TDN. It sounds pretty much all good. You would expect this might be a 2nd or 3rd round player from reading it.

https://thedraftnetwork.com/sr-prospect/eli-ricks-e5d83e09-dbf8-481e-a038-89f21985a7ea/

We really might have something here.

Ricks ran like 4.6/7.44 (!) 3cone, isn't that the mendoza line for being a draftable CB.  I think that Rasul would be OK in this D, but Ricks is 15lbs lighter and can't turn.

Just now, tuffstuff07 said:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/100839286343782?s=yWDuG2&fs=e&mibextid=Nif5oz

Nfc post draft reactions. This guy is hilarious 

14 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Whats the attidude? I havent heard.

After looking at him cover Smith, I went and read his scouting report on TDN. It sounds pretty much all good. You would expect this might be a 2nd or 3rd round player from reading it.

https://thedraftnetwork.com/sr-prospect/eli-ricks-e5d83e09-dbf8-481e-a038-89f21985a7ea/

We really might have something here.

Thought I read he wasn't happy when he didn't get playing time at Alabama at one point. It wasn't a direct bad attitude thing but seemed to insinuate something. Wouldn't have thought much of it except he didn't get picked.  Maybe it was testing.

TJ Cole has 1000000000000:1 odds to make the team. I doubt he even makes the practice squad for our team. But, he has some runs showing really good contact balance, and other times keeping legs moving through contact causing tacklers to just slip off him. Almost an extremely, extremely poor mans Swift with his running style. Not sure he can do it in the NFL rather than what ever opponents Ouachita Baptist plays.

I also checked out what was available on Toa Taua. Im not sure why they bothered with that one.

 

1 minute ago, pgcd3 said:

Thought I read he wasn't happy when he didn't get playing time at Alabama at one point. It wasn't a direct bad attitude thing but seemed to insinuate something. Wouldn't have thought much of it except he didn't get picked.  Maybe it was testing.

I guess there was something. A CB with his pedigree, playing well at LSU, and then when he finally got on the field at Alabama, with his size at 6'2'' with ok arm length should probably get drafted. 4.60 is draftable with his length. Not high, but draftable.  Unless the 3 cone is what really sank him. Guess thats possible. 

2 more scouting reports on this link. Also mainly positive

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/eli-ricks-cb-alabama-nfl-draft-scouting-report-2023/

7 hours ago, mattwill said:

Does relying on more question marks (especially rookies) make them a worse team?

QB - last year at this time there were significantly more question marks.

RB - definitely more question marks now, but also a higher ceiling than existed last year at this time

WR - fewer question marks this year than at this time last year. Or more correctly the question marks last year were about WRs 1 and 2 while this year the questions are about WRs 3 and 4

TE is a push

O-Line - definitely more questions this year

Edge/DE - more questions last year.

DT/NT - more questions this year

Stack LBs - more questions this year

CB - many more questions last year

Safety - different questions, but probably a push

RB - not sure there are more question marks this year.  Penny and Swift are more talented.  While Sanders did stay healthy last year, he was marginally more reliable with health heading into 2022 than our current guys.  And now we have 2 of them.  I actually feel much better about this year.

OL - I don’t know that this year has more questions.  I think the winner of the Jurgens/Steen completion will do better than fine replacing Seumalo.  The question is the same…can the OL starting 5 stay healthy?  I think we got really, really lucky with that last year and don’t expect that to last.  But, technically, it’s the same questions.

DT: I actually think we had more questions last year.  We leaned on Davis, he wasn’t ready and got hurt.  We had to make 2 emergency additions to stop the bleeding.  That’s not happening this year.  
 

LB: I still think more questions last year.  Those questions had very positive answers, but no one trusted Edwards and White this time last year.  While I’m no fan of Morrow, I think Dean is going to be, by far, the best of all of them.  
 

CB: this is the one where I lean negative.  While I like the long term projections of our youth at the position, I have serious concerns about both Slay and Bradberry with another year of aging.  I think we’ve got more questions this year to which we may not like the answers.

S: While I’m fine with the safety position, I think we have more questions this year.  No one trusted Epps, but there was confidence in CJGJ starting.  We may get an Epps out of Edmunds/Turner/Blankenship and there is some excitement around Brown…but we’ve got questions at both spots instead of one.

 

Last years team had a LOT of question marks.  They were just all answered really, really well.

All of the question marks this year at least have potential.  Safety, LB, even WR or OL could hang us…but at least there is significant talent at all of those positions.  

1 hour ago, Waiting4Someday said:

Specialists? Makes for a few more tough decisions. Probably won’t carry 7 DTs.

I think Ojomo, Street, and Marlon compete for the last spot.  The 2 that don’t make it will get swooped up pretty quickly.  
 

They are fairly high end cuts, but it’s nothing crazy.  They are just players that belong in rotations; they wouldn’t be starting for anyone.

Just wanted to provide everyone a list of UDFA's and Camp Invites so far (someone else with more time can break down which are which):

 

Jadon Haselwood, WR Arkansas

Joseph Ngata, WR Clemson

Brady Russell, TE Colorado

Trevor Reid, OT Louisville

Ben VanSumeran, Michigan State

Mekhi Gardner, CB LSU

Eli Ricks, CB Alabama

Ty Zentner, P Kansas State

TJ Cole, RB Ouachita Baptist

Toa Taua, RB Nevada

Chimemela Okorafor, OT Benedictine

Jasir Cox, LB West Virginia

DaShaun White, LB Oklahoma

 

We know the Eagles have a reputation of being one of the best UDFA landing spots in the NFL due to the fact a few actually make the team. I am very excited about Ricks, Gardner, Reid, and Haselwood's chances.

 

11 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I think Ojomo, Street, and Marlon compete for the last spot.  The 2 that don’t make it will get swooped up pretty quickly.  
 

They are fairly high end cuts, but it’s nothing crazy.  They are just players that belong in rotations; they wouldn’t be starting for anyone.

Marlon has the leg up based on his tenure. Ojomo having inside/out versatility probably gives him a leg up on Street. Also can't forget about Noah Elliss...he's a man mountain and is a NT. 

2 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

Just wanted to provide everyone a list of UDFA's so far:

 

Jadon Haselwood, WR Arkansas

Joseph Ngata, WR Clemson

Brady Russell, TE Colorado

Trevor Reid, OT Louisville

Ben VanSumeran, Michigan State

Mekhi Gardner, CB LSU

Eli Ricks, CB Alabama

Ty Zentner, P Kansas State

TJ Cole, RB Ouachita Baptist

Toa Taua, RB Nevada

Chimemela Okorafor, OT Benedictine

Jasir Cox, LB West Virginia

DaShaun White, LB Oklahoma

A bunch of those are supposedly camp invites only, not actually UDFA signings. There should be more names announced at some point.

3 minutes ago, RLC said:

 

I wouldn't be shocked if we kick the tires on Amos and Ngakoue...though I'm not that interested in Amos, think he's washed.

Just now, HazletonEagle said:

A bunch of those are supposedly camp invites only, not actually UDFA signings. There should be more names announced at some point.

True. I think the ones I'm most interested in: Ricks, Gardner, Reid, Haselwood are all confirmed UDFA.

1 minute ago, RLC said:

 

Maybe Amos, was with Desai already and our room there isn't overflowing with high level talent.