CBS analyst mocks Mac Jones to Eagles at №6. Is that idea as crazy at it sounds?

Mike Maher
The Birds Blitz
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4 min readMar 3, 2021

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It’s mock draft season, which means we are going to see tons of predictions from NFL Draft analysts over the next couple of months. Some will be from reporters who are attempting to piece together what they are hearing from teams and agents. Others will be from random jabronis on the internet trying to post a bunch of wild predictions in hopes of getting a few right. Most will be somewhere in between, with draft analysts and beat writers making educated guesses.

On Monday, a CBS Sports analyst made some waves on Eagles Twitter when they predicted that the Eagles would take Alabama quarterback Mac Jones with the sixth overall pick. Here is a tweet listing out the projected Top 10 in this scenario:

Obviously, plenty of Eagles fans were not thrilled. After the trade of Carson Wentz, the assumption by many was that the team would build around its second-year quarterback and give Jalen Hurts at least the 2021 season to prove that he can be the long-term answer. The counterarguments to that have been Hurts’s debut at the end of…

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Mike Maher
The Birds Blitz

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