Ranking best Eagles CB draft options after Ahmad Gardner, Derek Stingley

We rank Eagles potential prospect Andrew Booth slightly behind Kyler Gordon.

We’ve seen mock drafts that have projected Clemson’s Andrew Booth to the Eagles at 15 and 16. There have been mocks that have him going to the Eagles at 19. Some projections have him going late in Round 1 and falling out of the first round entirely.

The reasons for that are mostly unknown except for the fact that, though this hasn’t been said often, there are questions about whether or not the pre-snap direction he could have been given had more to do with his on-field success than people are letting on.

Was Booth really that good or did great coaching and having good talent around him mask some of his deficiencies? The first-round grades for this young man are understandable, but if you’re slightly hesitant about ranking him above Kyler Gordon, easy arguments can be made to support those theories too.

Taking Kyler Gordon before the top 20 picks in the NFL Draft seems like a reach, but any theories in which he’s still on the board after the first 20 selections of Round 2 seem like they’re a little farfetched too. Here’s a young man that doesn’t get mentioned enough.

He’s six-foot-tall. He tips the scales at 200 pounds, and in his final season in Washington with the Huskies, this future star tallied 45 tackles, two interceptions, and seven pass breakups in his final 12 games at the collegiate level.