The board owed the Eagles one, and it paid up: Lathan Ransom, the No. 103 name on the board, sitting there at slot 134 like a gift left on the doorstep. A dependable weekend that grades out a B.

If Gadsden II pans out, nobody remembers the price. If not, this is the pick they hear about. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped cornerback, which is a strange place to end up.

Adding Harold Landry III by trade rounds out the weekend beyond the rookies.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.