Matt Harmon & PFF’s Trevor Sikkema explain why Indiana’s Omar Cooper Jr. is a great fit for the Philadelphia Eagles, especially if star wideout A.J. Brown is on the trading block for the Eagles.
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Yeah, so for the Philadelphia Eagles, my player to team fit for them is Omar Cooper Jr., the wide receiver from Indiana.
And the reason why is I won’t say that A.J.
Brown’s played his last game as a Eagle, ’cause I don’t 100% believe that.
But if there are games left to be played, they are in the single digits.
Like, I, I think that at the very least- Yeah he is getting traded before next year’s trade deadline.
I think it’s most likely that he’s traded, right around June 1st.
I think that there’s a chance that maybe they hold onto him until training camp, and maybe s- one of these teams that are interested in his services gets a little bit more desperate and tries to up the price a little bit.
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But if he goes into next season with the Eagles, I, I just don’t know, man.
I, I just don’t see it working out well, and I think that he is dealt by the time they get to the trade deadline.
And so what does Howie Roseman do best?
He gets ahead of his needs, always, especially on positions- Mm-hmm that mean a lot.
And when you look at wide receiver, they did sign Hollywood Brown recently.
But outside of Hollywood Brown, Darius Cooper, Britain Covey, Johnny Wilson, Quez Watkins, Danny Gray.
I mean, it’s ba- if you take A.J.
Brown off of this team, it’s basically just DeVonta Smith, and I’d throw in Dallas Goedert as well, but Goedert was sort of barely back on a one-year deal.
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So- Yeah a year from now in free agency, you could be looking at ‘Cause I gotta assume that the Hollywood Brown deal is one year at this point with him signing when he did.
Yeah, it’s one year.
Yeah.
It is, yeah.
So, so if you look a year from now, you might have Dallas Goedert, Grant Calcaterra, A.J.
Brown, Hollywood Brown all gone.
And at that point, you have Cam Latou at tight end, DeVonta Smith obviously, and then the other wide receivers that I just named without looking up their contracts, which I’m sure some of them are gonna be up next year anyways.
That, that receiver need gets really- Yeah really, really thin for them.
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Or at le- gets really emphasized, I should say, as the depth chart gets really thin.
So Omar Cooper Jr., I think, is somebody who wins in a variety of different ways.
And he’s good off the line of scrimmage with his releases, and he’s got really nice hands, and he’s a pretty good route runner.
Is he the most athletic?
No, but I was actually impressed with how a, much of an athlete he was at the combine.
I was like, “Okay, this is kind of impressive,” you know?
‘Cause I see flashes of it on tape, but I go, “Eh, how much is really in there for you?
Is this j- just a good play?”
But I think he’s a fantastic all-around type of a wide receiver.
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If they’ve got the ability to take one of the big three guys, a Carnell Tate, a Jordan Tyson, a Mekhi Lemon, sure, that would’ve been my pick here at 23.
But those guys are often well off the board by the time that we get to that point.
I think Jordan Tyson might’ve been available in this situation, but his injury history, it’s so up in the air for him.
Yeah, it’s very- And so to, to be honest- Mm-hmm it’s sort, it’s sort of like a, a wide receiver at 23.
That was the real emphasis and the point of this pick here in this mock draft, because things could get really, really thin in Philadelphia in terms of, passing playmakers to be had a year from now.