Philadelphia Eagles 7-round mock draft: Trading up for future starters

Having already pulled off one trade when it comes to this year’s NFL Draft, Howie Roseman and the Philadelphia Eagles tend to be busier than most teams when it comes to shuffling around their draft picks.

They moved back to get Dallas Goedert in 2018, they moved up to get Andre Dillard in 2019, they used some later round picks in 2020 to gather future value, and they of course used the sixth overall pick to obtain a future first-rounder via the Miami Dolphins earlier this offseason.

While most teams normally limit their draft movement to one bigger-than-normal trade, the Howie Roseman led Eagles aren’t like most teams. With 11 picks still at their disposal to weaponize, most experts have the Eagles pinned as a team looking to move around even more during the 2021 Draft.

With that in mind, let’s get into my latest mock draft – one where the Eagles trade up twice when it’s all said and done.

The Philadelphia Eagles select…

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While there’s been plenty of talk of the Philadelphia Eagles potentially trading back up into the top-ten, I ultimately think they’ll stay put at pick 12. If they were truly sold on someone like Ja’Marr Chase or Kyle Pitts, or one of the quarterbacks, they wouldn’t have moved off the sixth overall pick in the first place.

Outside of the 2021 first-round pick that they picked up in the process, one of the main reasons the Eagles agreed to trade down is due to the fact that they believe they can still get an elite-level prospect at 12. Not only does South Carolina’s Jaycee Horn fit that description (most draft analysts have him as CB1 or CB2 in this year’s class), but his specific style of play would fit in beautifully under new defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon.

While the Eagles haven’t taken a cornerback in the first-round since way back in the early 2000s, Horn is the type of player who should be able to snap that streak. His very specific set of traits should see him rank towards the top of Roseman’s draft board, and in this specific mock draft he was still available at 12 – so I drafted him without hesitation.