Cactus Jack wrote:Jaydubb wrote:Cactus Jack wrote:Howie has built the best roster in Football through the draft. His only real misses have been at WR (Reagor & JJAW).
Hindsight is 20/20 obviously , but to this day I sorta understand the thought process behind reagor over Justin Jefferson because at that time most people in the world thought JJ was only a slot WR, otherwise he would’ve gone way higher but
I don’t understand JJAW over dk metcalf at all even at the time of the draft. The eagles had strong ties to metcalf all throughout the draft process and I even heard they were strongly considering taking him in the first round but instead they passed on him 3 times and instead tooo JJAW which I think even at the time was like a 5th round talent.
Metcalf had a pretty serious neck injury his last year in college. Which scared teams. He was kind of overshadowed by AJ Brown as well. That's why he fell as far as he did.
Which is also weird because the eagles have taken a chance on high upside players with injury risk before. Like LG Landon Dickerson in the 2021 draft, Sidney jones in the 2017 draft (huuuge bust due to the injuries but his upside was insane), nakobe dean in the 2022 draft, Nolan smith in 2023 draft, and most recently jihaad Campbell in the 2025 draft.
So yeah, the injury stuff doesn’t usually scare the eagles away. I just remember that year almost hearing nonstop love for dk metcalf.lol I get there’s a lot of smokescreens, but this was sooooo much smoke. I was so sure the eagles would take dk only to hear JJAW instead..lmao