Mail bag: a Day 3 Eagles fishing crossbar in each position

In our Eagles chat on Wednesday, there were a lot of questions we couldn’t get to in time or other questions we answered, but we were able to use more colors. So let’s do a post to answer some of the overrun, as well as a few frequently asked questions on Twitter and via email.

Question from Hurts SZN: Are there bedrooms / stones hidden in the needy Eagles positions that you are in love with or do you feel would be suitable for the Eagles? I would love to have a few more perspectives to research!

I will list a guy who expects to go on day 3 that I like, in every position:

• QB Kellen Mond, Texas A&M: He can run, he has a good arm and he was respected as the leader of his team in college. It’s pretty good for me as a guy who deserves to be developed in round 3.

• RB Kene Nwangwu, Iowa: He has 6’1, 210 and ran a 4.31 40 on his professional day. He has carried the ball only 143 times at ISU, which means that it is a raw prospect, but it also means that he has a very small mileage on it. Turns and hits.

• WR Marquez Stevenson, Houston: The small, fast guy with great RAC skills, and turns the game upside down.

• TE Kenny Yeboah, Ole Miss: Graduated transfer from Temple, who broke out in his last college season at Ole Miss, capturing 27 passes for 524 meters (19.4 YPC!) And six TDs in seven games. He played a more traditional role in college. In professionals, he will be more of a “TE move”, AKA and F, and could associate nicely with Dallas Goedert.

• OL Sedarius Hutcherson, South Carolina: Extremely strong inside linebacker who has played a bunch of positions in South Carolina, including LG, RG and LT.

• DE Joshua Kaindoh, Florida: Long slider, 6’6, who had a five-star perspective when leaving high school, but only had eight career bags, due to changes in the scheme and injuries. Next Josh Sweat?

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

• LB Buddy Johnson, Texas A&M: A bit undersized (6’0, 229), but its production was very good in 2020. It had 85 approaches, four bags, two FFs, three PBUs, an INT in 10 games and is believed to be a character leader .

• CB Marco Wilson, Florida: I had Wilson in the 1.0 project just for the Eagles, and Florida fans struggled to tell me they didn’t want anything to do with him, mainly because of this:

“Unsportsmanlike conduct, throwing the LSU player’s shoe 20 meters on the field …” lol.

Anyway, there is this and he gave up a few big songs in Florida. But, he also played the position of “star” in the defense of Florida, which is a hybrid role CB-S-LB, and ran a 4.34 on the professional day in Florida. As we can see, Jonathan Gannon is doing well, taking advantage of his defensive back in Minnesota and Indy. This is the profile of a day 3 guy who deserves to be trained.

• S Trill Williams, Syracuse: The outer corner, the slot corner and the safety at Syracuse were played. Running a 4.57 40 means that it will be a safety in professionals and has the physical game there. I like it as a third safety point that can be completed in several places, including covering the receivers with larger slots.

Question from fifiafon: Do you think the Eagles would have a better chance of drawing well going CB in round 1 and WR in round 2 or vice versa? I feel it’s easier to find a good WR in Round 2 than a good CB.

So this has been a common question lately, and while I think the WR and a CB are clearly the Eagles’ biggest needs, I don’t even think they need to land one with each of the first two options.

If there is a WR and a CB on the board with the Eagles selection at 12, and they have those two players evaluated very carefully, then maybe a tie-breaker is that the WR position is stronger on Days 2 and 3 than it is at CB, but if I have one share higher than the other, I get a better perspective.

Question from Pete: Am I the only person who thinks the Eagles should make all 11 draft picks? My thought process is that I was weak in terms of talent and Howie could use all the ammunition he can get, because deep down I know he’s not been anywhere for at least 5 years. With 11 picks, Howie has to be lucky and go with 3 decent players.

In previous years, the list was strong enough and deep enough that there was no way to hell to frame two-digit sketch selections on the list. Now? If they show something in the camp, they can fit. So I’m with you, not only on the point of “more apple bite”, but also because there is actually the possibility that a lot of beginners make the team.

Question from Catheter Cowboy: Is Isaac Seumalo still considered a potential replacement for Jason Kelce?

I think he’s the most likely starting point for the Eagles, yes.

Question from CS: I think my elimination from all these front office dysfunction issues is that the office environment of an NFL team is much more like any other office in the business world than most fans realize. This is a job with depressed policies, egos, ambitions and feelings. I think we are wrapped up in things that happen on the ground and under bright lights in prime time, but these are people with a day job and working relationships that can be everywhere on the map, from amazing to downright awful. Do you have a better sense of this kind of world that is a little more under the hood of the organization than regular fans watching a game on the weekend?

I mean, I’d rather have a work environment boost than the guy / gala guy who throws the game at 1pm on Sunday! It’s part of my job. But I included this question because I think your point is a good one. Before I started this business, I had a variety of sales jobs in traditional office structures. Some companies had strong leadership at the top, which declined. Others, not so much!

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

When business is good, it doesn’t really matter if there is a basic dysfunction. But when it’s bad, employees’ doubts about leadership become stronger. In a daily work environment, this dissatisfaction is expressed to colleagues at the bar after work. In a professional sports organization, it is expressed to the public, the media serving as a messenger.

So, there are certainly some similarities, but the dysfunction takes place in a much more public way with a professional sports organization than with other activities that the general public does not really care about.

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

Ha, well, I like that you now call her “Lurie’s draft cave” instead of Howie’s. But for me, it would probably have been Justin Fields, who I think in time will be a good NFL defender (mandatory declination according to which the QB assessment depends a lot on personality dissection etc. and I fail to do that).

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