Eagles 7-round NFL mock draft simulation: Two trades highlight Round 1

PFF’s draft sim sends shockwaves through the Eagles’ landscape again as they trade up from the 30th-overall selection and add another Stoutland University enrollee.

Moving into the back half of the draft’s first night, there are five teams picking ahead of the Philadelphia Eagles that could be equally interested in filling holes along their offensive line. Issac Seumalo plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers now, and even though there’s a growing desire to see Cam Jurgens at right guard, Philly could elect to keep Jurgens as a depth/reserve piece and land someone who’s good enough to be a plug and play starter right now.

Pro Football Focus grades a trade involving the Eagles and Jacksonville Jaguars as one both sides would be 100 percent willing to accept. The details are as follows.

Philly trades the 30th and 94-overall selection to the Jags. They earn the 24th overall selection as a result. With that selection, they add a solid choice. It isn’t sexy, but it’s one that makes the game’s best O-line even better.

Florida’s starting right guard for the 2022 NCAA football season, O’Cyrus Torrence, allowed zero sacks and zero quarterback hits while playing 698 snaps, and he never drew a flag. You see where this is headed, right?

During Florida’s 2022 matchup versus Georgia, Torrence lined up versus Jalen Carter, one of the top defensive prospects in the 2023 Draft, and held his own. Torrence allowed zero sacks and zero quarterback hits and earned a run-blocking grade of 84.7 across 71 snaps according to Pro Football Focus.

Torrence has a wide frame, giving him incredible stability and a natural talent for blocking rushing lanes. Weighing in at 330 pounds during the most recent NFL Scouting Combine, he tipped the scales as the heaviest guard projected to go in the first three rounds of this year’s draft.

O’Cyrus stands at six-foot-five and only allowed one quarterback hit during his career at the collegiate level, one spent as a member of both the Lousiana Ragin’ Cajuns (2019-2021) and the aforementioned Gators.

In the long term, Torrence provides the possibility to be an upgrade for the long-term at the right guard position for the Philadelphia Eagles. Most mock drafts are projecting the consensus First-Team All-American in 2022 to land with someone in Round 1 (but after the 20th-overall selection has been made. The Eagles shouldn’t hesitate to pounce if he does.