The Eagles’ sweeping draft-pick swap with the Saints this week wasn’t really about next year’s supposedly improved quarterback draft class. It was, at its core, about asset reallocation and balance and sustained team building.
And it makes total sense.
Philadelphia and New Orleans swapped first-round picks for 2022 and, along the way, the Eagles picked up an additional first-round pick in 2023 and a second in 2024. The Eagles have been largely lauded for the trade, and for good reason. Only I wouldn’t focus so much on the relative strengths and weaknesses of any potential draft position group as part of the post-trade calculus.
After talking to multiple sources with knowledge of each team’s thinking, here is what I would posit. For the Eagles, this was about the relative merits of having three swings in the first round of one particular first round, rather than what could be gained by having the latitude to move…
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