{"id":8148,"date":"2025-04-28T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/8148\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:52:07","slug":"eagles-select-georgia-lb-smael-mondon-with-161st-overall-pick-of-2025-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/8148\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles select Georgia LB Smael Mondon with 161st overall pick of 2025 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 161st pick of the 2025 NFL Draft, the Philadelphia Eagles selected Georgia linebacker Smael Mondon.<\/p>\n<p>Mondon was a five-star recruit out of high school. He was ranked 21st in the country by 247Sports and 11th by ESPN recruiting. He didn&#8217;t play much as a freshman in 2021 in Georgia&#8217;s loaded defense, but he led the 2022 National Champion Bulldogs in tackles with 76. In 2024, he had 57 tackles, 3 sacks, and 3 pass breakups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has ideal length to get into passing lanes, as well as impressive quickness and change of direction ability.\u00a0Some highlights:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mondon was often used in Georgia&#8217;s defense as a QB spy, and the Eagles are going to have to deal with Jayden Daniels for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Mondon is now the eighth former Georgia Bulldog defender on the Eagles&#8217; roster, joining Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, Nolan Smith, Nakobe Dean, Kelee Ringo, Azeez Ojulari, and Lewis Cine.<\/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 161st pick of the 2025 NFL Draft, the Philadelphia Eagles selected Georgia linebacker Smael Mondon. Mondon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8149,"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-8148","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\/114418047107349809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8148","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=8148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}