45 minutes ago, brkmsn said:

I won't be surprised if we trade down from 10 to add picks this year and then trade #30 for a 1st rd pick next year.

You'll be hard pressed to find a team willing to trade its 2024 1st round pick for a 30 overall in 2023.

57 minutes ago, Procus said:

You'll be hard pressed to find a team willing to trade its 2024 1st round pick for a 30 overall in 2023.

Agreed.  A trade for that pick would most likely mirror that deal with Baltimore in 2018 (their 2nd and the following year's 2nd) as the base (that deal also involved a swap of 4th rd picks).  If being optimistic a deal this year would involve a 2023 2nd, a 2024 2nd, and their 2023 4th outright (since we have no picks in rounds 4-6 to deal, although this is where having those comp picks may come in handy as we could include a 2024 pick knowing we'll have extra).    

9 hours ago, Procus said:

You'll be hard pressed to find a team willing to trade its 2024 1st round pick for a 30 overall in 2023.

Any team that believes they'd make the playoffs would jump at the chance if there's a player they really like sitting there that won't likely be there when they pick in the 2nd round. Plus it gives them that 5th year option. It wouldn't be all that risky a move for a teams like the Chiefs, Bills, Bengals, etc... The reason you don't see trades like that a lot is because most teams want something in return for the current draft.

 

It just seems to me that as we bring back some of the older veteran players, it might not be a bad idea to load up for the 2024 draft rather than having yet another 1st rounder sitting on the bench for 1 or 2 seasons. 

 

I really wanted a CB this year (believing we would have to replace Bradberry), but that can easily wait another season now. 

28 minutes ago, brkmsn said:

It just seems to me that as we bring back some of the older veteran players, it might not be a bad idea to load up for the 2024 draft rather than having yet another 1st rounder sitting on the bench for 1 or 2 seasons.

Even though the Eagles have two number ones this season, the team doesn't have a lot of picks in 2023, and from the looks of things, with comp picks, they'll have something like 11 or so picks.  Most likely any trade down is for picks in 2023

2 hours ago, Procus said:

Even though the Eagles have two number ones this season, the team doesn't have a lot of picks in 2023, and from the looks of things, with comp picks, they'll have something like 11 or so picks.  Most likely any trade down is for picks in 2023

That's why I said I wouldn't be surprised to see them trade down from #10 and then try to trade #30 for an additional 1st next year. I just have a feeling that they'll move the draft focus to next season when they will have more picks. Having two 1sts this season was good if Hurts didn't work out. Adding more youth was an alternative plan. However, we have extended several older vet players that will surely start. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to continue to draft guys that won't start (like Dean and Jurgens last year) and lose that cheap 1st contract year. By the time some of these guys get a chance to start, they may be hitting free agency.

18 minutes ago, brkmsn said:

That's why I said I wouldn't be surprised to see them trade down from #10 and then try to trade #30 for an additional 1st next year. I just have a feeling that they'll move the draft focus to next season when they will have more picks. Having two 1sts this season was good if Hurts didn't work out. Adding more youth was an alternative plan. However, we have extended several older vet players that will surely start. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to continue to draft guys that won't start (like Dean and Jurgens last year) and lose that cheap 1st contract year. By the time some of these guys get a chance to start, they may be hitting free agency.

I think the team can definitely find somebody at 10 who will get a lot of snaps in 2023.   Number 30 is much more of a crapshoot.

Picks slotted in the top 10 are few and far between for the Eagles, so I would think they'll hold onto that pick.  But then again, they did trade back from 5 to 12 and then back up to 10 to draft Devonta Smith, so you never really know.