4 QBs in NFL Draft carousel the Philadelphia Eagles must avoid

Brock Purdy is one of the draft’s ten best QBs, but the Eagles should steer clear.

If college football hasn’t taught you anything else, you’ve long known that the level of a draft prospect’s competition matters when it comes down to evaluation. Numbers are important, but they don’t tell the entire tale. If they did, Donnel Pumphrey would have been a first-rounder and off of the board before the Eagles had any shot of landing him in 2017.

Pumphrey, when he entered the draft, was the all-time leader in rushing yards in NCAA Division I FBS history, but he did most of that while beating up on The Mountain West Conference. That brings us to Brock Purdy.

This six-foot-one, 220-pound 2021 Fiesta Bowl Offensive MVP had the luxury of playing college football in the Big 12, a conference that isn’t known for defense. That should have allowed him to pad his stats some, but he’s known more for some of his ugly outings, games versus the Baylor Bears and the Big Ten’s Iowa Hawkeyes for instance, than his blowout win over UNLV or the 81 touchdowns that he tossed from 2018 to 2021.

Purdy figures to be among the top ten quarterbacks on everyone’s draft board, but he’s a Day 3 guy and, at best, a career backup. Don’t rule out the possibility of the Birds investing in a signal-caller in the draft, whether early or late, but if they do, more than likely, Purdy is someone they’ll want to avoid.