The Philadelphia Eagles are looking to “retool” and get much younger during this 2020 free agent and NFL Draft season.
While addressing the media at the Combine on Tuesday, Howie Roseman made it clear that his team wasn’t preparing for a rebuild, but more of a retool of sorts.
The Birds could make a huge move or two in free agency by targeting Byron Jones or Amari Cooper.
The biggest waves could be made in the NFL Draft, where according to Jeff McLane of The Inquirer, the Birds could channel their 2016 energy, using picks to move up and select the player they covet such as Jerry Jeudy or Henry Ruggs III.
With 10 picks in this year’s draft, the Eagles can stockpile talent, or because they don’t have many open roster spots, they could utilize the ammunition to trade up in the draft and grab a player they covet in the first or second round.
“As we sit here, we would love to say that we’re going to be having 10 picks, but there were moments in the last two drafts, when there were guys within [trading up] reach, that we would want to move up [for], and we just didn’t have the ammunition to do it,” Roseman said. “So if there is a guy still that we thought was an incredibly high value, and we could go up and go get him, we couldn’t take that off the table.”
The Eagles will be aggressive in free agency and the draft, adding even more intrigue to an already exciting offseason.