The NFL Draft is just a few days away. I love it. There’s nothing like the draft.

You can inject all mock drafts and rumors into our veins, and this is the final week of mock draft SZN, so let’s absorb as much as we can, starting with Peter King, who dropped his mock in the Football Morning in America column for NBC Sports:

15. Philadelphia Eagles: Jordan Davis, defensive tackle, Georgia 

Flip a coin here. Davis or Trent McDuffie. (And won’t WIP have a good laugh at my expense when the pick is neither guy.) But I’ll go with Davis because of his freakish athleticism at 335, his ability to impact the game all over the defensive front, and the prospect that he can succeed Fletcher Cox (32 in December) as the toughest guy to block on the Philadelphia defensive front.

The best thing I heard about Davis after his 4.78-second dash at the combine (at 341 pounds) was from one coach who thought Davis could play nose on first down and three-technique (the interior rush player) on second and third downs. That’s not common. He didn’t have great college production—19.5 tackles behind the line in 47 games at Georgia—and that would be a big concern to me. But someone will take him in the middle of the round, because he’s got such great potential.

Davis is monster on the interior defensive line. 6’6″, ~340 pounds, a national champion who played against the best offensive lines in college football. The Eagles need to address this position because Javon Hargrave and Fletcher Cox are both on expiring contracts.

Thing is, Davis is built like a nose tackle, so you wonder how he’d fit in a 4-3 defensive front. You’ll see Haloti Ngata comps out there, and I know the Birds got Ngata near the end of his career, so fans might turn their nostrils up at that, but in his heyday, Ngata was Pro Bowler who played around the same height and weight.

Davis was first-team AP All-American and All-SEC this season. He won the Chuck Bednarik award (best defensive player) and Outland Trophy (best interior lineman) and was a finalist for the Nagurski and Walter Camp awards.


More from King:

*22. Philadelphia Eagles: Devin Lloyd, linebacker, Utah

*Projected Trade: Eagles trade the 18th pick to the Packers for the 22nd pick and a late third-round pick, 92nd overall.

Dart throw. Howie Roseman could trade down again here. The receiver and corner markets, both of which he needs to hit before the end of day two, don’t align with what’s left on the board in this mock. Lloyd had experience doing everything in 32 starts over three Utah seasons. His 43 career tackles for loss show he’s a play-wrecker in the run game too.

One other point about Lloyd, wherever he goes: NFL Network will have an emotional feature story Thursday night about the two Utah players lost to gun violence in 2021. I’m told Lloyd’s words will be emotional and heavy in the piece—he was the Utah captain who had a huge burden on his shoulders helping his teammates get through the double-ordeal.

It seems insane to think that Lloyd would fall to 22 after being mocked top-12 early in the process (and that the Eagles would draft a first round linebacker), but he’s really a fantastic player. If they could slide back, add a third rounder, and end up with both Davis and Lloyd, then it would be a slam dunk draft. Add a second round receiver and give it an A grade.

The rumor right now is that a lot of teams are trying to trade back into the late first/early second round right now, and if Howie was able to accrue more assets while adding two defensive starters, then you’d have to tip your hat to the guy.

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