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2022 NFL mock draft roundup: Eagles land Sauce Gardner, top Senior Bowl edge rusher

2022 #NFL mock draft roundup: #Eagles land Sauce Gardner, top #SeniorBowl edge rusher #NFLDraft2022 #TheDraftStartsInMOBILE

The draft process started in Mobile, Alabama this weekend and after an amazing Senior Bowl weekend, several mock drafts will have a totally different look.

Players like Jermaine Johnson (Edge), Malik Willis (QB), Kenny Pickett (QB), Trevor Penning (LT) and others put on a show, totally reshifting a lot of top-50 prospect lists.

With all the attention turning towards the Super Bowl, the NFL Combine, and the start of free agency, here’s a look at the latest mock draft roundups, with Philadelphia’s attention squarely focused on a certain FSU pass rusher.

2022 NFL mock draft roundup: Eagles pair Sauce Gardner with Darius Slay

Even as the #Eagles start preparation for #SuperWildCard Weekend, eyes are leaning towards the draft and 3 FIRST ROUND picks. In this postseason mock draft roundup, #SauceGardner and #Slay could be the recipe for 2022

The Eagles were one of 14 teams able to move on to postseason play, but the rest of the league will begin offseason preparations, looking towards the NFL draft to reload and contend in 2022.

Mock draft season is set to engulf the league and after Georgia defeated Alabama in the National Championship game, college football’s top stars will start heading to Mobile, Alabama for the 2022 Reese’s Senior Bowl,

Here’s your initial postseason mock draft roundup for wild card weekend.

2022 draft order: Eagles will have two top-16 picks entering wild card weekend

#NFLDraft2022 order: #FlyEaglesFly #Eagles will have two top-16 picks entering #WildCardWeekend

The Eagles finished the 2021 regular season with a 9-8 record and as the team prepares for their first playoff appearance under Nick Sirianni, attention is turning towards the draft as well.

The Colts’ two-game losing streak coupled with the Dolphins wins means Philadelphia is guaranteed of having two mid-first round picks due to both teams missing the postseason.

The Eagles will wait until they are eliminated from the playoffs to determine their actual pick in April’s draft.

Here’s what we know entering Wild Card Weekend.

Back to School: How Carson Wentz has regressed on open seam routes

Carson Wentz and the Philadelphia Eagles offense is struggling. Perhaps we should have seen it coming, as we see in this video breakdown.

If you watched Monday Night Football this week, you might have seen a play near the end of the first half from the Philadelphia Eagles and quarterback Carson Wentz. The Eagles offense had their first good drive of the game going, and on a first-and-10 play Wentz tried to hit rookie wide receiver Jalen Reagor along the right sideline on a curl route. The pass fell incomplete, and could have been intercepted.

Immediately, both Brian Griese and Louis Riddick broke down the play, and highlighted what went wrong. Wentz had an opportunity to throw a seam route against single-high coverage, and ignored it, opting instead to throw a curl route along the sideline.

Sound familiar? It might, as it was the kind of play highlighted here last week as one of the problem with Wentz and the Eagles offense right now.

But a deeper cause for concern is this: Perhaps we should have seen it coming. This is a seam route story starring Carson Wentz:

As you see at the end, I was one that defended that play from Wentz back in the day. Well, maybe I was wrong, and maybe we should have seen this coming.

Now, there are a lot of problems with the Eagles offense right now, beyond the quarterback. But for those wondering if regression is real, here it is, in video form. Sometimes quarterbacks either are who they are, or revert to muscle memory in hard times. That might be the story of Wentz’s 2020 season.

2020 NFL MVP Odds: Is Carson Wentz worth a bet?

Analyzing the betting odds to be named the NFL’s 2020 MVP, with a look at whether Carson Wentz is worthy of a bet this season.

Do you think Philadelphia Eagles QB Carson Wentz has what it takes to win the 2020 NFL MVP? Let’s examine his chances, the BetMGM NFL futures odds around it happening and whether or not Wentz is worth an MVP bet.

Wentz should already have one MVP award under his belt. His 2017 performance was nothing short of spectacular but was ended prematurely due to a fluke injury on a scramble against the Los Angeles Rams in the third quarter of Week 14. Wentz stayed in the game and threw a go-ahead touchdown pass on fourth down, but he was taken out of the game and missed the rest of the season due to a torn ACL. Nick Foles stepped in brilliantly and you know the rest of the story for the 2017 Eagles.

But let us not forget Wentz’s dominant 2017 campaign. At the time of the injury, the Eagles were the best team in football with an 11-2 record with the highest-scoring offense and Wentz’s 33 passing TDs were more than eventual MVP Tom Brady. Unfortunately, the Eagles haven’t been as good with Wentz under center due to (in my opinion) poor injury luck for him and his teammates.

Carson Wentz’s 2020 NFL MVP odds

Odds via BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Thursday, April 2 at 4 p.m. ET.

Wentz is going off at +2000 to win the 2020 NFL MVP at BetMGM.

He’s tied as the sixth favorite to win the award with Brady, Deshaun Watson and Dak Prescott. As far as raw talent is considered, Wentz is certainly in the conversation with those names and, while it’s fair to rank him a tier below Lamar Jackson, Russell Wilson (both +500) and MVP-favorite Patrick Mahomes (+325), it also isn’t unthinkable Wentz could play himself into MVP conversations next season.

The other two contenders with better odds than Wentz are old-timer MVP-hype mainstays Drew Brees (+1400) and Aaron Rodgers (+1600). The explanation behind Wentz’s price to win MVP is partially due to the fact the Eagles haven’t acquired much offensive talent this offseason.

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Carson Wentz’s stats

I’ll give you Wentz’s 2019 stats but let me bring in a caveat right after. Last season, Wentz threw for 4,039 yards with 27 passing TDs and seven interceptions on a 63.9% completion rate and a 93.1 QB Rating.

Aside from maybe Wilson and Brady, Wentz had the weakest supporting cast of all the quarterbacks priced around or above him. Wentz was the first quarterback to have a 4,000-yard season without having a single wide receiver record at least 500 receiving yards (TEs Zach Ertz and Dallas Goedert finished with 916 and 607 yards, respectively).

Is Carson Wentz worth a 2020 NFL MVP bet?

The path to an MVP season for Wentz is certainly 11 or more wins and another NFC East crown, which Philadelphia has won twice in Wentz’s first four seasons. Unless the Eagles hit a home run in the NFL draft with a wide receiver, Wentz will need standout seasons from Ertz and Goedert and might resort to some hero ball.

Philadelphia believed Wentz can compensate for a less talented offense when he was given a four-year contract extension worth $128 million. The +2000 odds represent a fair price but if you have a vast NFL futures portfolio then SPRINKLE a little cash on CARSON WENTZ TO WIN THE MVP.

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