Mail Bag: A 3 Eagles day trip to each position

In Wednesday’s Eagles chat, there were a lot of questions we couldn’t get to in time or other questions we answered but could use more color. So we do a mailing bag post to answer a bit of the overflow, as well as some frequently asked questions on Twitter and email.

Question by Hurts SZN: Are there dorms / gems hidden in the Eagles need positions that you fall in love with or have the feeling would fit in with the Eagles? I would love to have some more perspectives to research!

I will list a guy who is expected to go on day 3 that I like, in all positions:

• QB Kellen Mond, Texas A&M: He can run, has a good arm and was respected as the leader of his team in college. That’s good enough for me as a guy worth developing in the third round.

• RB Kene Nwangwu, Iowa State: He has 6’1, 210 and ran a 4.31 40 in his professional day. He only took the ball 143 times to ISU, which means it’s a raw potential, but it also means he has very little mileage. He also kicks back.

• WR Márquez Stevenson, Houston: Small, fast and fast, with real-time RAC capability, and the game turns upside down.

• TE Kenny Yeboah, Miss Ole: Transfer of Temple graduates, who exploded in his last school season at Ole Miss, taking 27 passes for 524 yards (19.4 YPC!), And six TDs in seven games. He played a more traditional role in college. In the pros, it will be more of a “TE move,” AKA F, and could pair very well with Dallas Goedert.

• OL Sedarius Hutcherson, South Carolina: Very strong inner linier who played a lot of positions in South Carolina, including LG, RG and LT.

• BY Joshua Kaindoh, Florida: Long, 6’6 top athletic runner who was a potential five-star out of high school but had only eight running sacks, due to schedule changes and injuries. The next Josh Sweat?

• DT Kenny Randall, Charleston: He’s small for a DT (6’2, 302), he’s old (25) and has some red flags (he was fired from the team a few years ago), but he was productive in 2019 (seven sacks, two FFs) ), and has a bit of a bang (1.65 in the top 10 of his 40). This is a terrible DT class, but I like it as a UDFA, and the Eagles would make sense to him as he grew up on the Jersey shore.

• LB Buddy Johnson, Texas A&M: A little small (6’0, 229), but its production was very good in 2020. It had 85 aircraft, four sacks, two FF, three PBU, an INT in 10 games, and is considered a high leader of the character.

• CB Marco Wilson, Florida: I had Wilson in my exclusive Eagles 1.0 drill, and Florida fans went out of their way to tell me they didn’t want anything to do with him, mostly because of this:

“Unsporting behavior, throwing the LSU player’s shoe 20 yards across the field …” hehehe.

Anyway, there is this and he gave up some great plays in Florida. But he also played the “star” position in the Florida defense, which is a CB-S-LB hybrid role, and ran a 4.34 on the Florida professional day. Apparently, Jonathan Gannon did a good job getting the most out of his defensive backs in Minnesota and Indy. This is the profile of a Day 3 guy worth training for.

• S Trill Williams, Syracuse: It is played in the outer corner, the corner of the slot and the security in Syracuse. Running a 4.57 40 means that it will be a safety for professionals and that physicality plays into it. I like it as a third security that can fill several places, including the coverage of larger slot receivers.

Question of fifiafon: Do you think the Eagles would have a better chance of writing well going CB in the first round and WR in the second round, or vice versa? I find it easier to find a good WR in the second round than a good CB.

So this has been a frequent issue lately, and while I think WR and a CB are clearly the Eagles ’two biggest needs, I also don’t think they should get one of each with their first two options.

If there is a WR and a CB on the board with the Eagles selection at 12, and they have these two players evaluated very closely, perhaps a tiebreaker is that WR’s position is stronger on days 2 and 3 than on CB, but if I have one score higher than the other, I only have the best perspective.

Pete’s question: Am I the only person who thinks the Eagles should make all 11 draft picks? My thought process is that we have been weak in creating talent and Howie could use all the ammo he could get, because deep down I know he won’t go anywhere for at least 5 years. With 11 selections, Howie has to be lucky and leave with 3 decent players.

In previous years, the list was strong enough and deep enough that there was no way in hell to be able to include double-digit draft selections on the list. Now? If they show something on the training ground, they can fit in. So I’m with you, not only on the “most apple bites” point, but also because there’s an opportunity for many newbies to form the team.

Question by Catheter Cowboy: Is Isaac Seumalo considered a possible replacement for Jason Kelce?

I think it’s the Eagles ’next most likely starting point, yes.

CS question: I think my way of getting all of this out of office dysfunction is that the office environment of an NFL team looks a lot more like any other office in the business world than most fans do. ‘adonen. It is a workplace with frustrated policies, egos, ambitions and feelings. I think we’re wrapped up in things happening in the field and under bright lights during peak hours, but these are people with daily work and work relationships that can be all over the map, from amazing to absolutely horrible. Do you have a better idea that this kind of world is a little more under the hood of the organization that makes it the medium to watch a game on the weekend?

I mean, it’s better to have more dust in the work environment than the typical man / friend who spins the game at 1pm on Sunday. It’s part of my job. But I have included this question because I think your point is good. Prior to entering this business, he had several sales jobs in traditional office facilities. Some companies had strong leadership at the top, which fell to the bottom. Others, not so much!

It was always very easy to diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of people in leadership positions, at least if you spent enough time around them. I’m sure many of you can relate. I think that’s partly why you see several reports this low season of the Eagles ’internal dysfunction, which have common themes (and they also align in many ways with small snippets of information I’ve heard along the way).

When business is good, it really doesn’t matter if there is any underlying dysfunction. But when it’s bad, employees ’doubts about leadership get stronger. In an everyday work environment, this disgust manifests itself to the bar’s co-workers after work. In a professional sports organization, it is made public to the public, with the media as a messenger.

So there are some similarities, but the dysfunction develops much more publicly with a professional sports organization than with other businesses that don’t really interest the general public.

Question from comandermolandr: Jimmy, if you could be in Lurie’s projection cave and influence a perspective project, whether positive or negative, who would it be and why?

Ha, so I like to call it “Lurie’s Cave” now instead of Howie. But for me, it would probably have been Justin Fields, who I think will eventually be a good NFL quarterback (mandatory responsibility that QB evaluation depends a lot on personality dissection, etc., and I can’t). )).

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