3 Reasons Eagles should be slightly hesitant about drafting Nakobe Dean

Is there any possibility Nakobe Dean isn’t the Eagles’ best option in Round 1?

You have to love this time of the calendar year. Warm weather replaces those chilly nights. The new NFL year approaches in the middle of March, and everyone’s tossing ideas back and forth about what the Philadelphia Eagles might do in the next free-agency period and what their plans are for those first-rounders when the draft comes at the end of April.

Yes friends, there’s nothing like seeing anonymous threats in your inbox because someone didn’t like your take on one of your social media accounts. Who Philly should or shouldn’t draft is a sore subject for people, huh?

It seems like we say this every year (and we do), but this is a huge offseason for Philadelphia. With three first-rounders, they need to nail every single one of them. They never draft linebackers on opening night. At least they haven’t since 1979, but some think this is the year. Some think the choice should be Nakobe Dean, formerly of the Georgia Bulldogs.

No one’s saying he can’t play. We all know he’s been phenomenal, but is he the answer that everyone says he is? Here are three reasons why we may need to pump the breaks slightly.