{"id":7176,"date":"2025-04-28T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/7176\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:28:08","slug":"eagles-select-boston-college-c-drew-kendall-with-168th-overall-pick-of-2025-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/7176\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles select Boston College C Drew Kendall with 168th overall pick of 2025 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 168th pick of the 2025 NFL Draft, the Philadelphia Eagles selected Boston College center Drew Kendall.<\/p>\n<p>Kendall started 37 games over his college career, all at center. He has NFL bloodlines, as his father is Pete Kendall, who was a Seahawks first-round pick (21st overall) in the 1996 NFL Draft who played 13 seasons in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Kendall has a nice blend of size and athleticism:\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll see in the highlight reel below, Boston College used Kendall&#8217;s athleticism, putting him on the move to the perimeter and to the second level:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;re counting starting LG Landon Dickerson, the Eagles don&#8217;t have a true backup center on their roster. Because Kendall is a bigger center at 6&#8217;4, 308, it&#8217;s not a stretch to assume that he can also play guard. I imagine Jeff Stoutland will cross-train him at all three interior offensive line spots so that he can become a versatile backup.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Jimmy &amp; PhillyVoice on Twitter: <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimmyKempski\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@JimmyKempski<\/a>  |  <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thephillyvoice\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@thePhillyVoice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phillyvoicesports\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PhillyVoice Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/feed\/channel\/jimmy-kempski\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jimmy&#8217;s RSS feed<\/a> to your feed reader<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 168th pick of the 2025 NFL Draft, the Philadelphia Eagles selected Boston College center Drew Kendall.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,1277,7,88,6,242,109,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-7176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-eagles-draft","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114416065515098423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}