Philadelphia Eagles: Offensive rankings versus the Super Bowl teams

How do the Philadelphia Eagles compare to the Bengals and Rams at running back?

This one is a bit trickier than the quarterback position. On paper, Miles Sanders should be a top-10 guy, but his numbers aren’t on par with Joe Mixon, who had the third-most yards of any running back in the NFL last season at 1,205 on 292 carries.

Behind their number one guy, the Eagles’ supporting cast of Jordan Howard, Boston Scott, Kenneth Gainwell, and Jason Huntley is pretty good, with a nice mix of young rushers with different styles, but the Rams are a run-by-committee team that has gotten increasingly more formidable with the additions of Sony Michael via trade and Cam Atkins from IR.

Ranking: Second.

The solution? Draft a power guy on Day 2 to complement Sanders.

As counterintuitive as it may seem, Mixon alone is good enough to put the Bengals in my top spot because he’s really, really good, and the Bengals use him really, really well. Still, if the Eagles can add a power guy on par with Sanders via a premium draft pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, it could be enough to turn the NFL’s best rushing attack from the 2021 season into something akin to the moderate “Greatest Show on Turf,” without having to rely so heavily on Jalen Hurts’ legs to pad out the ground gains.