The Eagles had 24 hours to negotiate A.J. Brown’s extension, and it came down to the wire. AlbertBreer’s MMQB column on how the Eagles hunt market inefficiencies in the game of collecting picks ⬇️
Fifteen months ago, the Eagles finished 4-11-1. They’d separated with the only coach in franchise history to win a Super Bowl, just three years after that Super Bowl was won. The roster was aging in key spots. The franchise quarterback wanted out. And the hire of Sirianni wasn’t exactly marked with a parade to the Rocky steps.One was the sixth pick in the draft, earned with that 2020 record. The other was Carson Wentz.
, particularly since there was a blockbuster contract attached to it, too. But really, the trade itself, as the Eagles saw it, was more tied to the flexibility they created for themselves by building the aforementioned draft haul in an environment where picks were coming cheaper than ever. Doing that landed Philly a first-rounder in 2023 and a second-rounder in ’24. Which means, at that point, the haul for Wentz and the sixth pick in ’21 stood at: Smith; the 15th pick and a third-rounder in ’22; a first-rounder in ’23; and a second-rounder in 2024.
The Eagles actually had a collective come-to-Jesus moment about Davis in a draft meeting earlier in the month, when college scouting director Alan Wolking presented a report on the All-American and gave context to the criticism of Davis, that he was only a part-time player at Georgia. Wolking’s information showed that was actually related more to a program-management thing.
For now, the stockpiling of picks seems to be working. At last check, Wentz and the sixth pick from 2021 have been flipped into: Smith, Davis, a third-round pick used as a sweetener in the deal for Brown, a first-round pick next year and a second-rounder the year after that. It also gave Roseman flexibility in the last two drafts and should give him flexibility for at least two more drafts to come.
And the Jets aren’t psychics. They don’t know what Gardner, Wilson and Johnson, or the 36th pick, Iowa State tailback Breece Hall, will collectively become. But they sure didn’t expect it’d play out this way—where the four top-40 picks they came into the weekend with, added to a third-rounder and two fifth-rounders used in trades up, would land them three of the top 10 players on their board and four of the top 20.
So once the Texans swung on another corner, LSU’s Derek Stingley Jr., even with NC State’s Ickey EkwonuAnd then, in Douglas’s words, “It’s nervousness again, because we felt good about our top 10, but you’re hoping for things to fall a certain way.” Just as important was that Wilson, like last year’s second-round pick, Elijah Moore, could separate enough to create easy completions for the quarterback, while also bringing a rare ability to, like Douglas said, make combat catches in 50-50 situations, which should make Zach Wilson’s job easier in giving him layups, while also allowing for him to take more chances.
They did, of course. Johnson was there. And the interesting thing was he was there in large part because some of his predraft meetings hadn’t gone well, while a big piece of the Jets’ interest in him wasof his predraft meeting with them, during which he told Douglas that, before he transferred from Georgia to Florida State, he taught himself an array of pass-rush moves via … YouTube.
On Douglas’s way home Thursday, he noticed his 14-year-old son had sent him a text, right around when the 13th or 14th pick was made: “Jermaine Johnson’s falling.” So Friday morning, Douglas’s son said to him, “You got Jermaine!” Douglas responded, “Yeah.”Douglas laughed, knowing how clear it was how fortunate he’d been the night before, in how things fell into place as they did.
2) If the third tackle was there and the other two were gone, the Panthers were comfortable taking him. But in that scenario, they’d also have considered trading down. But as it was, the Panthers were going to try to get back into Day 2, after trading their second- and third-round picks in deals for Sam Darnold and C.J. Henderson, and they were going to do so within some guardrails they’d set up for themselves. The big one was this: They weregoing to part with a future first-rounder and really didn’t want to deal off a future second-rounder either.
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