It’s going to seem odd to a lot of people to be reading an article on the Eagles a day after the draft, on a Washington Commanders’ blog, but stranger things have happened. There will be plenty of time to reflect on Washington’s draft class, but I think Philadelphia’s absolute crushing of the draft provides fodder for several important discussions about team building that are best tackled right now.
Like so many things in football, and in our lives, we tend to look at the impacts of the draft in isolation - how do the players selected line up with “expert” opinion, and how does adding these guys improve last year’s team?