B
Philadelphia Eagles
Best value of the weekend goes to the Eagles for Worthy: B.
by KIYOSHI SABERS ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 10 picks
· 1 steals
· 3 reaches
Call it larceny. Xavier Worthy sat on the board until the Round 3 slot, and the Eagles did not need to be asked twice. Call it a sensible B, earned the boring way.
For all the activity, safety went untouched, which is hard to explain. They will need Williams to outplay his draft slot in a hurry to justify it.
Small wins on the phones, but wins all the same.
All told, a solid class that does its job everywhere but safety.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 22 they get a ballhawk on the outside at fair value. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Edgerrin Cooper at No. 50 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
You do not let a wide receiver like Xavier Worthy reach pick 66 and blink. They did not. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
A clean, defensible pick in the Round 3 slot with a little surplus value in Blake Fisher. It fills a real need, too.
Zak Zinter at Round 4, Pick 11 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
They paid a round early for Javon Foster in the 120th overall pick, more than the board wanted. A need, and now a little less of one.
James Williams at pick No. 161 jumps the queue by a touch more than is comfortable. It is more luxury than necessity; they were already set here.
A straight-up fair deal on Jordan Jefferson at the 171st pick, value and slot in agreement. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
They went early on Nelson Ceaser in pick No. 172, and the value did not follow. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Cody Schrader in the 210th pick is fair value, right on his grade. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
