NFL Draft 2021: Why notable former evaluators agree with Eagles’ decision to trade back for 2022 picks
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Philadelphia Eagles general manager Howie Roseman traded down from the sixth overall pick in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft a month before the actual draft weekend.AP
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Eagles GM Howie Roseman took the league by surprise when he made a pre-draft trade with the Miami Dolphins in March.
Roseman dealt the sixth (1st) and 156th (5th) overall picks to the Dolphins for the 12th (1st) and 123rd (4th) overall picks and a 2022 first-round selection, roughly a month before next week’s NFL Draft. The extra 2022 first-round pick gives the Eagles at least two Day 1 selections next offseason.
Gil Brandt, Mark Dominik break down 2021 NFL Draft prospects
Brandt and Dominik highlighted players who could be of particular interest to the Giants
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SiriusXM NFL Radio’s Gil Brandt and Mark Dominik answered questions from the media Monday about the 2021 NFL Draft and the needs of different teams around the league.
Brandt, of course, was the Vice President of Player Personnel for the Dallas Cowboys from 1960-1989. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Cowboys’ Ring of Honor.
Dominik worked in a NFL front office role for 20 seasons, 19 of them with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, first as a pro personnel assistant and scout, then as the team’s Director of Scouting, and ultimately as the franchise’s general manager.
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Members of the Patriots front office were in attendance at Trey Lance s second Pro Day session on Monday, along with the handful of quarterback-needy teams like San Francisco and potentially Atlanta among others joining them.
According to SI.com s Albert Breer, Eliot Wolf and Dave Ziegler were in attendance to watch Lance, who came in at number one on this year s Patriots top-50 fit board. National scout Matt Groh was reported to have attended Lance s first session back in March and a similar contingent attended Justin Fields second throwing session last week as the Patriots have kept close tabs on the top targets this draft season.
Free agency an antidote for offensive fireworks, mobile QBs Follow Us
Question of the Day By ARNIE STAPLETON - Associated Press - Friday, March 12, 2021
DENVER (AP) - Teams searching for an antidote to the high-octane offenses and mobile quarterbacks that dominate the modern NFL won’t have to wait around for the draft.
Free agency this year promises a deeper pool of possibilities than usual because the league’s lost revenues during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 resulted in the first decrease in the salary cap in a decade.
“You’re going to see more veteran guys released for cap purposes than you would otherwise,” ex-NFL GM and Hall of Famer Bill Polian said after the league announced a salary cap of $182.5 million in 2021, an 8% reduction from last year.
DL Gerald McCoy would love to go back to Tampa Published: Mar 08, 2021 at 06:26 PM Nick Shook Copied!
Gerald McCoy knows the end of his football career is near, but he s ready to give it another go.
Where better to close a career than the place he once called home for nearly a decade?
The veteran defensive tackle made an appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio on Monday, speaking with a pair of hosts that included the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager who made McCoy the third-overall pick of the 2010 NFL Draft. As a free agent, McCoy can choose where he ll attempt a comeback in 2021, and he has his eye on the home of the Super Bowl champions.