EAGLES NEWS

Well, it finally here, draft day, so let's see which safety did the Eagles draft in the first round, oh wait they traded out the first round. Okay, so which safety did they draft in the second round with their first pick of the draft, oh wait they didn't draft a safety, they drafted..... a quarterback? okay, well there were still plenty of good ones left, maybe it's Trent Edwards, or John Beck, or maybe even Pennsylvania's own Drew Stanton. No? its not one of them then who is it?, Kevin Kolb out of Houston, who the H*** is he? and why the H*** did they draft him? say the Eagles fans as they boo the pick. Well, according to the Andy Reid the Eagles didn't having any pressing needs to address in this draft(yeah, tell that to Brian Dawkins when he looks at the depth chart this summer, and realizes there's no one behind him, at least not until tomorrow anyway), and thus rather then fill a need they simply selected the best player available, which was apparently Kolb. Now in fairness Reid also said that this pick had nothing to do with the Eagles being worried about Donovan Mcnabb's return from his knee injury at the beginning the upcoming season. Still, until I get a chance to see Kolb play, I can't say whether this was a bad pick or not. Going strictly by his college numbers, Kolb sounds like he might not be half bad. All told, in his career at Houston, Kolb passed for 12, 964 yards and 85 touchdowns and was conference USA player of the year last season with 3,809 yards and 30 touchdowns and just 4 interceptions. He is also the only player in the history of Houston university to pass for 3,000 yards in 3 straight seasons, pretty impressive when you consider that they once harbored Heisman trophy winning QB Andre Ware, and the 12,964 yards rank 4th all time in division 1-A, behind former Eagles Timmy Chang of Hawaii and Ty Detmer of BYU, and N.C state's Philip Rivers now of course with the Chargers. Oh and by the way, Kolb his 6-3 218 Lbs, pretty good size for a QB. So while none of us have heard of him, Kolb has put some pretty good numbers, so I think we should cut Andy Reid some lack before we call this draft a waste. Anyway, as a consolation for trading out of the first round, the Eagles had 3 more picks on the first day of the draft. With the 57th pick of the 2nd they selected Notre Dame's DE Victor Abiamiri to sure up their depth at that position, not that they didn't already have crap load of DEs on their roster, but it never hurts to have another. The Eagles followed that in the third round by taking Nebraska Linebacker Stewart Bradley with the 87th pick in the 3rd round. I know, what kind of football name is Stewart, but hey he lead Nebraska last year with 76 tackles, and he's 6-5 254Lbs so he should provide nice depth for their linebacking core. Finally the Eagles finished the day 3 picks later by taking Penn State RB Tony Hunt with the 90th pick in the 3rd round. At 6-1 233 Lbs Hunt could be the bruising short yardage back the Eagles have been looking for since losing Duce Staley to free agency, or he could just be another in a long line of Penn state RB busts, you know like Blair Thomas, Curtis Enis, and Ki-jana Carter. Yeah I know I don't remember them either, but let's hope that Hunt turns out to be the former.