Philadelphia Eagles Focusing On Defense At Senior Bowl

Senior Bowl week is here, the first of many important events for NFL draft prospects leading up to the big day. This week is a chance for the seniors to standout in front of multiple representatives from every single team in the league.

But for the Philadelphia Eagles in particular, it seems that they are honed in on the defensive side of the ball this year. Of their twelve reported meetings with players at the event so far, ten of them are on defense. Here’s a full list including each prospect the birds have had contact with so far:

Utah cornerback/safety Eric Rowe
USC cornerback Josh Shaw
Miami (OH) cornerback Quinten Rollins
Penn State defensive end Deion Barnes
Louisville linebacker Lorenzo Mauldin
Miami linebacker Denzel Perryman
Penn State linebacker Mike Hull
Washington linebacker Hau’oli Kikaha
Michigan State safety Kurtis Drummond
Ole Miss safety Cody Prewitt
Miami wide receiver Phillip Dorsett
Ohio State wide receiver Devin Smith

Of course there are players the Eagles have met with that nobody knows about yet or may never know about. Also, just because a player is or isn’t interviewed, it doesn’t mean the team likes or dislikes that player more than another. For example, according to NJ.com’s Eliot Shorr-Parks, USC cornerback Josh Shaw was asked about an incident from earlier this past season.

Either way, it’s still eye-opening to see the team is making such a concentrated effort to contact so many of the defensive players at the event. It’s especially notable that the team seems to be focusing on the back two levels of the defense and not the defensive line. Luckily, the team should be set up-front on defense for quite a while with plenty of young talent already on the roster such as Fletcher Cox, Bennie Logan, Cedric Thornton, Vinny Curry and Beau Allen.