Philadelphia Eagles Draft | Benjamin Solak Top 100 Big Board

As Day 2 continues, the Philadelphia Eagles will look to address the gaps they couldn’t on Day 1. But there’s a reason these players aren’t Day 1 prospects.

Several of these names you’ll hear thrown around the Eagles, but as the numbers get bigger, so do the holes in the prospects’ games. In every class, there’s a cliff–a sudden, noticeable drop in talent. For me, that cliff hits right around 40. As such, this board hosts a few prospects I think the Eagles would do well to avoid.

JuJu Smith-Schuster might terrify Philadelphia fans because of their history with USC wide receivers, but JJSS doesn’t play a lick like WR Nelson Agholor. He operates with physicality, explodes off the line of scrimmage, and teems with confidence. But I don’t trust his hands–he catches a lot with his body–and makes at least one boneheaded error a game. You can only swagger like Steve Smith if you play as well as Steve Smith does, young blood. I wouldn’t want him in my locker room.

CB Adoree’ Jackson, Smith-Schuster’s teammate in SoCal, should have stayed on the track. A transcendental athlete, Jackson has yet to declare for the draft, and I hope he returns to school for a year to grow as a player. A good coach can mold him into an NFL corner, but given his lack of technical skills, another year of growth would help tremendously.

D’Onta Foreman, the RB from Texas, could get a look from the Eagles as a Day 2 RB. However, Foreman’s style of running wouldn’t fit too well in Philly. With an athletic O-Line, the Eagles like to pull their lineman and get their running backs in space. Foreman excels as a one-cut, rumble-between-the-tackles sort of guy, wherein the smaller interior line for Philadelphia has less of an advantage. I’d expect them to go a different direction.

Keep an eye on Bucky Hodges. The Virginia Tech tight end stands at 6’6 and regularly embarrasses corners on the outside. A project as a boundary player, Hodges doesn’t lack agility and speed, so the Eagles could grab him as a bargain late and attempt to develop him into an outside weapon. Regardless of his WR prospects, he’s absolutely devastating up the seam.