Every year, the Super Bowl winner is copied in some way. After the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl in February of 2014, teams looked to improve their secondaries and the success of Richard Sherman had them looking for bigger cornerbacks than they had before; in the 2014 draft, there were nine defensive backs taken in the first round and 53 overall, the most of an position group; Stanley Jean-Baptiste went 58th overall and was seen as a Sherman “clone” but proved that size isn’t everything. (To this day, Jean-Baptiste has yet to record an NFL stat.
What we can learn from the 2017 Eagles
