09-19-2022, 09:02 PM
Informative (and long) read.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/3458...ngs-eagles
"I'm not going to sit here and lie," Eagles general manager Howie Roseman said this month during an appearance on 94 WIP. "We'd love to have that moment back."
TRAINING CAMP AT the NovaCare Complex is about as close to a safe house for Eagles players as it gets. Due to a lack of space around the practice fields, the crowd is limited to select season-ticket holders, corporate sponsors and charitable foundations. The environment is almost entirely supportive. So it was no surprise when, during a training camp practice this August, a middle-aged man enthusiastically called out "Reagor!" as the receiver passed close by, causing Reagor, 23, to offer back a thumbs-up. But the fan followed by yelling: "You suck!" stirring a few chuckles but mostly stunned silence from nearby fans. Reagor responded by putting his hands together and bowing his head as if in prayer as he walked away. That's how it went for him in Philadelphia, practically from day one.
The repercussions of getting a first-round draft pick wrong can reverberate for years, especially when the player passed over skyrockets to stardom. The decision to take Reagor over Jefferson -- one year after selecting receiver JJ Arcega-Whiteside over DK Metcalf in the second round of the 2019 draft -- put Roseman behind the eight ball on multiple fronts.
It forced him to pour heavy resources into the position over the next two years to make up for the misstep, effectively using three first-round picks as well as a cool $100 million to get there. Jefferson, meanwhile, has base salaries of $1.8 million and $2.4 million, respectively, over the next two seasons and would have alleviated the need to chase after receiver help.
The primary error Philadelphia made in its evaluation of Jefferson was thinking he would be largely limited to the role of slot receiver in the pros; he had run 563 of his 574 total routes from the slot or in line at LSU in 2019. The Eagles believed Reagor was a better scheme fit as a burner on the outside. ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper had Reagor projected as a second-rounder in his 2020 mock draft 3.0, noting he "was a touchdown waiting to happen."
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/3458...ngs-eagles
"I'm not going to sit here and lie," Eagles general manager Howie Roseman said this month during an appearance on 94 WIP. "We'd love to have that moment back."
TRAINING CAMP AT the NovaCare Complex is about as close to a safe house for Eagles players as it gets. Due to a lack of space around the practice fields, the crowd is limited to select season-ticket holders, corporate sponsors and charitable foundations. The environment is almost entirely supportive. So it was no surprise when, during a training camp practice this August, a middle-aged man enthusiastically called out "Reagor!" as the receiver passed close by, causing Reagor, 23, to offer back a thumbs-up. But the fan followed by yelling: "You suck!" stirring a few chuckles but mostly stunned silence from nearby fans. Reagor responded by putting his hands together and bowing his head as if in prayer as he walked away. That's how it went for him in Philadelphia, practically from day one.
The repercussions of getting a first-round draft pick wrong can reverberate for years, especially when the player passed over skyrockets to stardom. The decision to take Reagor over Jefferson -- one year after selecting receiver JJ Arcega-Whiteside over DK Metcalf in the second round of the 2019 draft -- put Roseman behind the eight ball on multiple fronts.
It forced him to pour heavy resources into the position over the next two years to make up for the misstep, effectively using three first-round picks as well as a cool $100 million to get there. Jefferson, meanwhile, has base salaries of $1.8 million and $2.4 million, respectively, over the next two seasons and would have alleviated the need to chase after receiver help.
The primary error Philadelphia made in its evaluation of Jefferson was thinking he would be largely limited to the role of slot receiver in the pros; he had run 563 of his 574 total routes from the slot or in line at LSU in 2019. The Eagles believed Reagor was a better scheme fit as a burner on the outside. ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper had Reagor projected as a second-rounder in his 2020 mock draft 3.0, noting he "was a touchdown waiting to happen."
