Eagles Draft Speedy Cal Linebacker, Mychal Kendricks, In 2nd Round,
BREAKING NEWS, Eagles Draft, News, NFLDraft Friday, April 27th, 2012
The Eagles selected Cal linebacker Mychal Kendricks with their 46th pick in this year’s draft, which was a second round pick. Kendricks was the Defensive Player of the Year in the Pac-12 and will be battling for a starting linebacker job on this year’s Eagles squad.
Kendricks has tremendous speed for a linebacker and he’s an explosive hitter. I expect the Eagles linebackers will force more fumbles with Kendricks on the squad. He ran a 4.41 forty-yard dash. I love the way he attacks the line of scrimmage. He has great instincts for finding the football.
I see this defensive football team playing the game on the other side of the line of scrimmage.
The addition of Kendricks and DeMeco Ryans makes the Eagles a much more physical defensive football team. They’re going to punishing ball carriers which is a big change from the past few years.
Last year’s linebackers are going to have their work cut out for them when it comes to getting on the football field.
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Foles will be an excellent back up and I think he’ll be with the Eagles for a while kinda like the Eagle’s version of Jim Sorge Payton Mannings old back up. Smart kid with excellent short to mid range accuracy. I still like Kafka as the heir apparent more mobile better improvisational skills. Slow footed system guys with limited mobility haven’t fared very well as of late when facing a high powered pass rush… Just hope this one works out better than Kolb.
I am surprised how many draft picks from Gcobb comment poster’s mock drafts where selected ——– I never saw Cox, Kendricks, or Curry play a single game and know them from you knuckle heads preaching how great they are in mock drafts
TE Orson Charles is still on the board but they will probably use a 6 round pick on Brent Celek brother who’s a TE.
I like Kendricks Curry and Foles…
Kendricks looks nice and fast but also has and attitude and can tackle..
Curry’s statline is wonderful..
I watched tape of Foles and he fits perfectly with what the team should be trying to get from their QB.. Nice and tall.. can see everything easily.. gets rid of the ball quickly.. strong… accurate…
and they dont have to rush him in… This guy looks good
Im impressed with the way the Birds have handled the draft
curry is also very athletic and should have been a first round pick .. he was injured at the combine and didnt lift and ran a poor 40 4.98 which was what caused his slip ..At his proday he wasnt even 100 percent and did 28 reps jumped 35 inches and ran a 4.64 and a 4.69… faster than coples branch chandler jones and melvin ingram
Eagles0, you can apologize to Paul, GMCLIFF, Navy, & myself later, for the knuckleheads comment, but now at least you realise our greatness. LMFBO! In all seriousness, if you combined team needs, best player available, mock grades, age at our positions of importance (DE, DT), & Reids love for linemen, it wasn’t that hard to pick this year. Now today we get a slot corner/ return man, big WR & we’re golden. They are doing a great job thus far & look for Yeremiah Bell & Joseph Addai to be signed as soon as Sunday. A well informed source has informed me. A- thus far, this offseason.
It’s official. Darth Fatness is on the hotseat and for once is making logical selections in the draft.
Good for him.
The future finally is now.
Dcar – hope you are not using me as the well informed source on Addai and Y Bell – but I agree that is what I am hoping will happen…
I’d be happy with Addai and Bell too. But I would be just as happy with Forsett, or a few others of the FA rbs…
I heard the point yesterday that baring a Shady injury, the Eagles really don’t use rookie RBs much – unless they’re picked really high. So I don’t see the need to draft an RB – unless you get a guy who can line up in the slot as a WR who also has return value – Rainey or one of those.
So going FA for RB – the market is still pretty decent for that – is the way to go – and we all know there’s precedence for that. How can it possibly go as poorly as the Ronnie Brown experiment? Harrison worked really nicely though.
I’m thinking that they don’t go TE at all. I think they may take a stab at one of the FBs, but it seems to me like they’re rolling with Harbor behind Celek now and will not carry 3 TEs. I could definitely be wrong there.
At this point for CB – I’m hoping Boykin. Not a good option for starting outside in the future – but we have Marsh and Lindley for that. But the kid can play the slot, and has returner value. I say bring the guy in – fits two needs. Bowles can bring out the toughness in him – he’s already go that.I’m hoping they grab him with that 4th rounder. It’s reasonable to think that he’ll be available.