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Philadelphia Eagles’ Seven Round Mock Draft | 1.0

By Benjamin Solak

Feb 24, 2016; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Philadelphia Eagles executive vice president of football operations Howie Roseman speaks to the media during the 2016 NFL Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 24, 2016; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Philadelphia Eagles executive vice president of football operations Howie Roseman speaks to the media during the 2016 NFL Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Philadelphia Eagles’ season is over, and the college football Bowl games are all but wrapped up. It’s time to look ahead to the 2017 NFL Draft.

So many changes; the same result. With a new GM, a new head coach, two new coordinators, and a shiny new starting quarterback, the Philadelphia Eagles went 7-9 for the second year in a row. Last year, that was good for 2nd in the NFC East, only two games behind the Washington Redskins–this year, dead last.

Suffice to say, the Philadelphia Eagles have plenty of work to do in the upcoming NFL Draft this April. Their needs are plenty and blatant. The order of those needs can be debated, but I rank them as such:

If someone shuffled around WR, CB, and RB, I could hardly blame them. The Eagles’ future hinges on their ability to improve those three positions–whether through free agency, or more likely, through the draft.

As such, here comes our first Philadelphia Eagles seven-round mock draft–16 weeks before the actual event in Philadelphia. A few things to note before we get started:

The Eagles’ draft order stands as follows:

  • 1st Round: 14th overall (via Minnesota Vikings)
  • 2nd Round: Own pick
  • 3rd Round: Own pick
  • 4th Round: Own pick
  • 5th Round: Browns’ pick
  • 5th Round: Own pick
  • 6th Round: Own pick
  • 7th Round: Own pick

There are plenty of reasons to get excited about this draft. Firstly, the presumed future-mortgaging of the Carson Wentz trade clearly doesn’t exist, via the highway robbery that was the Sam Bradford trade. The Eagles actually have an extra pick in this year’s draft: the Browns’ fifth, which could become a 4th-rounder if the league awards the Browns a compensatory pick at the tail end of the fourth. Nice.

Second, if you haven’t learned the name Joe Douglas yet, you better start, because…

…turns out he might be pretty important.

A branch off the Ozzie Newsome tree, Douglas was a scout with the Ravens–an organization consistently successful in the draft–over the past 16 years. He spent last year with Chicago, as their director of college scouting, before the Eagles scooped him up.

I’d like to take this moment to note that Chicago drafted Leonard Floyd, Cody Whitehair, and Jordan Howard in their year with Joe Douglas–all three immediate impact players.

Those who knock Howie Roseman as a GM look to his draft failures. Danny Watkins, Kevin Kolb, Jaiquawn Jarrett, Curtis Marsh, Marcus Smith–stop me when it really starts to hurt. But Joe Douglas brings time-tested draft experience to Philadelphia, and hopefully his hand in the process will elevate the Eagles’ much-needed success during the event.

With these things in mind, let’s take a look at the Philadelphia Eagles seven-round mock, version 1.0

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