LSU's Terrace Marshall Reportedly "Talking to the Eagles a Lot"
Let’s get it back to the Eagles.
We’re looking for information morsels as the draft approaches, and Kyle Brandt of Good Morning Football, which is infinitely better than Get Up, said something interesting during Tuesday’s show about LSU receiver Terrace Marshall, Jr.
Here’s the relevant passage, transcribed by Adam Hermann at NBC Sports Philadelphia:
“This guy’s 6-3, he catches 10 touchdowns in seven games before opting out for the rest of the season. You think they have all these guys, and they do. This is another one, a big, explosive playmaker they can go after. He’s been talking to the Eagles a lot, so we’ll see.”
Hmm.. “talking to the Eagles a lot.”
That’s interesting.
Last week, speaking with reporters, Marshall said the following, via Ed Kracz at SI:
Marshall’s answer to the question if he has met with Philadelphia: “I have been talking to the Eagles.”
The answer would seem to indicate he has had more than one meeting.
Obviously Brandt’s wording is slightly different, but bottom line is that the Eagles seem interested and that’s two tidbits right there that suggest multiple conversations.
Marshall only played seven games this season, as Brandt notes, and in that short amount of time he caught 48 passes for 731 yards and 10 touchdowns. The teams he didn’t play against were Bama, Florida, and Ole Miss, but he caught 10 passes for 134 yards and a score against a Texas A&M team that was ranked 5th in the nation at the time. If you extrapolate his numbers to a full ten-game season, he would have been close to 1,000 yards and 12-14 touchdowns, catching passes thrown by quarterbacks not named Joe Burrow.
He’s 6’3″, about 200 pounds, a second-round projection. There have been a couple of mock drafts that have him going to the Eagles at #37, and Pro Football Focus has him as the sixth-best receiver overall, writing this:
“Marshall is a long-limbed speedster who offers a little more dynamism after the catch than your average 6-foot-3 wide receiver. After playing primarily on the outside in 2019, Marshall thrived in 2020 while taking over Justin Jefferson’s role in the slot. He would have easily been one of the most productive receivers in the country on a per-target basis were it not for seven drops on 55 catchable targets. Still, he can make some spectacular catches with a massive catch radius, and drops haven’t been an issue for him in the past.”
Keep in mind, Marshall would have been LSU’s #2 receiver this season, had Ja’Marr Chase not opted out.
Here are some highlights: