We recently sat down with three former Eagles draft picks -- Mike Quick, Zach Ertz, and Harold Carmichael -- and asked each to recall the day he was drafted.
Here are their tales.
Mike Quick
Context: The Eagles drafted Quick in the first round, 20th overall, in 1982 from N.C. State, only after the Bills took Perry Tuttle, the Clemson wide receiver the Eagles wanted, at 19th overall. This happened because then-Eagles coach Dick Vermeil confided in a close friend, Bills coach Chuck Knox, that the Birds wanted Tuttle. Quick didn’t know this at the time of the draft, but he eventually heard the whole story through NFL Films, which did a feature on the Eagles’ draft.