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Derrick Gunn: Eagles Top Two Priorities Going Into the Draft Are Wide Receiver and Edge Rusher

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Apr 26th, 2022 · 12:33 PM EDT

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Lets get it back to the Eagles…

Derrick Gunn said on his show “Sports Take,” alongside Barrett Brooks and Rob Ellis, that the Eagles main priorities going into the draft are wide receiver and edge rusher:

"Here's what I've been told… their top two priorities going into this draft, wide receiver and edge rusher."

– @RealDGunn on the #Eagles#SportsTakeLive pic.twitter.com/4GideGjJJI

— JAKIB Sports (@JAKIBSports) April 25, 2022

And water is wet…

There’s nothing Howie loves more than edge rushers and wide receivers because he typically misses on one every three years, so he’s forced to re-draft another. Next I’m going to hear the Eagles are interested in a Pac-12 player with injury concerns or a star free agent cornerback from a west coast team.

Here’s my controversial opinion when it comes to the NFL Draft: I want the Eagles to draft a good player. I know. Brave. I hate the lead up to the draft. Who needs seven mock drafts? Every executive in the league is lying even to the most plugged in guys. Like DGunn said, nothing in the draft is known except for the two first picks and that’s not even a guarantee this year. Nobody in the top half of the draft even wants to pick:

Within the past week, as the draft has drawn closer, multiple teams in the top half of the draft have inquired with others to try to trade back in the first round, per sources. So far, the interest in moving back in Thursday’s draft has greatly exceeded the interest in moving up.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 25, 2022

Tom Pelissero from NFL Network says some teams have fewer than 15 guys with first round grades, to which Jeff McLane mentioned the “Eagles would fall into this class”:

#Eagles would fall into this class, I believe. That’s why a trade up with the first pick seems the most likely scenario to me, and if so, followed by a trade out with the second pick.

The first may be easier to accomplish, and in both cases still need willing partners. https://t.co/hzHpwrtAgg

— Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) April 26, 2022

DGunn doesn’t think Howie wheels and deals unless it’s for a corner. Jeff McLane thinks Howie could move up and trade #15 and trade out of #18. Even the Eagles guys are hearing differently. It’s #SmokeScreenSzn and everyone’s a loser!

If I had to guess, I’d say Howie stays at #15 and trades #18 to someone looking to jump the Saints and Pittsburgh. The only thing Howie Roseman likes more than wide receivers and edge rushers are draft are assets in his shiny war chest he can use to distract Jeffrey Lurie away from another rebuild.