The Eagles drafted the top cornerback in Mitchell with the No. 22 pick. Good move?
Quinyon Mitchell celebrates with fans after being selected 22nd overall by the Philadelphia Eagles during the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft at Campus Martius Park and Hart Plaza on April 25, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. . It would be disingenuous for me to pan the selection, especially when I thought it would require a trade up to No. 16 to acquire the Toledo cornerback.
Rasul Douglas might have fallen under the same category, but he thrived in Green Bay after leaving the Eagles, which suggested that former defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz didn’t quite know how to utilize his skill set. Or maybe Douglas just wasn’t a scheme fit. Nevertheless, first-round corners should be able to thrive in any system. Mitchell has the tools. How he’ll develop is anyone’s guess.
Mitchell very well may be worth the exceptions. He has the upside to become a No. 1 cornerback with time because of his high-level physical traits and elite college production, albeit against lesser competition in the MAC. Still, Mitchell was dominant at Toledo and he backed it up with an impressive showing at the Senior Bowl. He helped his draft stock even further with a 4.33-second 40-yard dash at 6-foot, 195 pounds at the scouting combine a month later.
Most sensible draft projections had Mitchell going higher than No. 22 because of his profile, but the board fell in the Eagles’ favor with several quarterback-needy teams foregoing the best players in the draft in favor of middling signal callers. Roseman bucked a lot of recent trends with his selection of Mitchell with the No. 22 overall pick. He took a cornerback in the first round for the first time. He made his original pick in the first round instead of trading up or back for just the second time in the last seven years. He took a non-Power Five player in the first round for the first time since Carson Wentz in 2016.
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