Philadelphia Eagles: NFC East post-draft power rankings

Well, here we go! By now, you’ve tossed your ideas around about what this team did in the draft in quite a few conversations (and some of them may have been when you were alone). The Eagles may have taken Jalen Reagor too high. Taking a third-string quarterback in Round 2 was bad value. Their third-round draft choice, Davion Taylor, isn’t what you would call a “sure thing”.

Yes, you read part of that correctly. Jalen Hurts is a third-string quarterback, not a second as some keep stating. People are calling him a backup, but that role on this team is Nate Sudfeld.

To make matters worse, Philly traded a fifth-round draft pick to the Dallas Cowboys, and they used that to strengthen their offensive line. Sure, Howie Roseman parlayed one draft pick into four, but there’s nothing that this team did, outside of landing Darius Slay and Javon Hargrave in free agency, that states the “Birds” are definitively better than that team from Dallas.

It’s sad but true. A quarterback in Round 2? Really? Philadelphia passed on the likes of Justin Jefferson and Kenneth Murray in Round 1. They ignored Denzel Mims and Kristian Fulton in Round 2. Don’t be surprised if we look back at some point and say the NFL Draft was the day the Eagles lost the NFC East.