If you’re going to get creative, if you’re going to throw caution to the wind, the seventh round of the NFL draft is the place to do it.
Judging football flesh is an imperfect science, and frankly, by the time you get down to the seventh round, it’s pretty much a crapshoot. Teams are looking for just one or two redeeming qualities in a guy that will provide them with a modicum of hope that he might be, could be, more than just another training-camp body.
Since the draft was reduced to seven rounds in 1994, the Eagles have found a few serviceable players at the bottom of the draft barrel, but not many.