Philadelphia Eagles top 3 concerns as Week 10 game vs Broncos nears

2. One first-round Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver is special. One is not.

What if someone told you that the Philadelphia Eagles STILL need wide receivers? Sure, it hurts to hear it. Everyone is tired of watching this team swing and miss on draft picks, but outside of DeVonta Smith and Quez Watkins, this team has nothing at wide receiver.

Now that sucks because, since 2017, the Eagles have invested seven draft picks on the position. Of that bunch, the two guys drafted in 2017 aren’t even on the team anymore (Shelton Gibson and Mack Hollins). It only gets worse from there.

The Eagles invested a second-round draft choice in 2019 on a guy that can’t play (JJ Arcega-Whiteside). He was a second-rounder.

In 2020, they added Jalen Reagor, John Hightower, and Quez Watkins. The man that was selected last, Watkins, is the best of that bunch, but the plan on game day is to try to get the ball in Reagor’s hands. We get it. He was a first-round draft choice. That’s who Eagles CEO Jeffrey Lurie and Howie Roseman want on the field. There’s a problem though.

This team has to manufacture ways to get the ball into Reagor’s hands. He’s probably a bust. That makes the tenth-overall selection of 2021’s NFL Draft, DeVonta Smith, the saving grace of this unit.

Philadelphia has utilized their last two first-round picks on wide receivers. One can play, and one can’t. All that’s been said to say this. After everything that the Eagles have done to upgrade their receiver corps, they still have a ways to go. Believe it or not, the Eagles still need wide receivers.