Consensus Mock Draft - Post Combine - Pick 25 - Philadelphia Eagles

[goldfishwars]

Going to adopt the "1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice" method. Meaning your first choice is worth 3 points, 2nd is worth 2, and 3rd is worth 1. Please do not select the same player multiple times in one selection. If you do, only the highest value will be taken for that and the lower duplicate votes will be discounted.

1. Arizona Cardinals: Kyler Murray, QB - Oklahoma

2. San Francisco 49ers: Nick Bosa, EDGE - Ohio State

3. New York Jets: Quinnen Williams, DT, Alabama

4. Oakland Raiders: Josh Allen, EDGE - Kentucky

5. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Devin White, LB - LSU

6. New York Giants: Dwayne Haskins, QB - Ohio State

7. Jacksonville Jaguars: Jawaan Taylor, OT - Florida

8. Detroit Lions: Montez Sweat, DE - Mississippi State

9. Buffalo Bills: Ed Oliver, DT - Houston

10. Denver Broncos: Drew Lock, QB - Missouri

11. Cincinnati Bengals: Devin Bush, LB - Michigan

12. Green Bay Packers: Brian Burns, EDGE - Florida State

13. Miami Dolphins: Rashan Gary, DL - Michigan

14. Atlanta Falcons: Christian Wilkins, DT - Clemson

15. Washington Redskins: Greedy Wiliams, CB - LSU

16. Carolina Panthers: Clellin Ferrell, EDGE - Clemson

17. New York Giants:  Jonah Williams, OT - Alabama

18. Minnesota Vikings: Andre Dillard, OT - Washington State

19. Tennessee Titans: TJ Hockenson, TE - Iowa

20. Pittsburgh Steelers: Byron Murphy, CB - Washington

21. Seattle Seahawks: Chauncey Gardner-Johnson, S - Florida

22. Baltimore Ravens: DK Metcalf, WR - Mississippi 

23. Houston Texas: Cody Ford, OT - Oklahoma

24. Oakland  Raiders: Deandre Baker, CB - georgia

25. Philadelphia Eagles 

More options will be added in later picks. If after 20+ votes the selection is clearly one person as the favorite we will move on to the next pick. Otherwise It will be ~24 hours before the poll closes. If there are 2/3 options that are close, there will be a runoff. This is who you think they WILL pick, not who they SHOULD pick.

[EaglesPeteC]

Give me Simmons all day, every day in this scenario 

[SBLIII]

They'll probably go Dexter, Simmons or Tillery.

[Shanedorf]

From a positional spending POV, the Eagles are very heavily invested in DL. If you look at 2020 and 2021, they are spending the most of any team in the league on their DL. And that certainly fits with their strategery.
Will they invest even more resources and cap space on DL in the draft ?
There are other pressing needs, especially with an aging OL and a strong desire to protect Wentz from further injuries.

https://overthecap.com/positional-spending/

[Kiltman]

26 minutes ago, Shanedorf said:

From a positional spending POV, the Eagles are very heavily invested in DL. If you look at 2020 and 2021, they are spending the most of any team in the league on their DL. And that certainly fits with their strategery.
Will they invest even more resources and cap space on DL in the draft ?
There are other pressing needs, especially with an aging OL and a strong desire to protect Wentz from further injuries.

https://overthecap.com/positional-spending/

If Ford is there or within striking distance, could see them making a move there. And certainly an argument for a Guard/Center being added.

but the way we rotate our dline, we need a quality 3rd DT. And with Malik Jackson’s deal being 3 years, it lines up perfectly for whatever DT we would get to take over around the time we have to resign them. By having this depth they keep the studs fresh into the 4th quarter and into the end of the year.

now drafting Simmons doesn’t help us this year, and ideally I’d love to slide back a couple spaces and get an extra pick before taking him. But dude is a top ten talent. He comes back healthy and him and Cox are the most dangerous interior Dline in the league by far with Malik Jackson. 

We’d also like to add a young talented DE if we could.

as much as I like Nasir, value of this draft is Safety in the second. We have two picks, should be able to get Savage/Thornhill/Hooker at one of those

[Shanedorf]

3 minutes ago, Kiltman said:

but the way we rotate our dline, we need a quality 3rd DT.

Indeed. But would you the Eagles value that 3rd DT over a starting OL ?

[Kiltman]

17 minutes ago, Shanedorf said:

Indeed. But would you the Eagles value that 3rd DT over a starting OL ?

They wouldn’t start til next year, unless it was a guard who beat out Isaac. They’d probably start a couple games until Brandon Brooks was back.

But a o-tackle would sit like Simmons would.

if there is an OL they think can be a tackle or a guard, would have a lot of value. Cause we don’t know if Seumalo is the long term answer at LG, and while the team loves Jordan Mailata and his crazy athletism....banking your future LT on a guy who played Rugby until two years ago is a bit insane, no matter how promising he is.

[Danger]

2 minutes ago, Kiltman said:

They wouldn’t start til next year, unless it was a guard who beat out Isaac. They’d probably start a couple games until Brandon Brooks was back.

But a o-tackle would sit like Simmons would.

No matter who we draft at 25. They aren't starting for the Eagles this year. It's moreso looking for the best talent in 2020 and beyond for us. 

I would love Simmons but there's a strong possibility we are gunshy after Sidney Jones in a similar vein seems to not be as much as we'd hoped he'd amount to, but the jury is still out on that to a degree.

[Shanedorf]

5 minutes ago, Danger said:

No matter who we draft at 25. They aren't starting for the Eagles this year.

What's the track record for 37.75 year old LTs as far as playing a full 16-19 game season ?

[Fureys49ers]

3 minutes ago, Shanedorf said:

What's the track record for 37.75 year old LTs as far as playing a full 16-19 game season ?

Isn’t Whitworth the only LT to even come close to that age and full season played? Other than I can’t think of a LT that old asked to play that many games.

[Danger]

2 minutes ago, Shanedorf said:

What's the track record for 37.75 year old LTs as far as playing a full 16-19 game season ?

If there's an OT worth taking at 25 then by all means, otherwise I'd rather wait until the 2nd. The only 3 worth a first round pick have already been taken. I don't much care for reaching for prospects. 

There are a lot of guys who I like as 2nd round picks and certainly think that will be a route we can take. In the mean time at that position we also have Vaitai, who isn't really a long term answer but is a good enough backup to play when needed. As well as Jordan Mailata who while still incredibly raw, has quite a bit of potential. He may also be a possibility in 2020. 

[Scalamania]

Risner, Tillery and Lawerence in that order is what I went with. Not a really great scenario for the Eagles to be in, IMO. 

[KellChippy]

3 hours ago, Danger said:

I would love Simmons but there's a strong possibility we are gunshy after Sidney Jones in a similar vein seems to not be as much as we'd hoped he'd amount to, but the jury is still out on that to a degree.

I would hope there is no hesitation.  Simmons is a better prospect with a lesser injury and it is hard to imagine him failing with his physical skills.  

Howie covets the opportunity to acquire true difference makers, and I don’t think Jones, who was an imperfect prospect before a potentially career hindering injury, should change that.  We’d have no shot at landing a healthy Simmons.

Would prefer o-line but as mentioned, there likely won’t be anyone worth it at 25.

[bananabucket]

If Simmons goes 1 pick in front of us in real life I will die on the spot 

[BayRaider]

Eagles always go trenches in the 1st. I went Tillery, Simmons, Winovich.