Rookie Nolan Smith kicks off our list of the most important Eagles in 2023.
Over the next few weeks leading up to training camp, we’ll be counting down the top 25 most important Eagles for the 2023 season.If the Eagles decided to stay put at No. 10 and draft Nolan Smith, no one would have been all that shocked. It probably wouldn’t have even seemed like a reach.
So the fact that they were able to get him at No. 30 in the draft was pretty impressive. And they were pretty surprised it happened.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters. “Yeah, I think that's one of the things in the draft you have to be flexible,” Eagles GM Howie Roseman said. “You go into the draft and you say here are a couple names at 30, and then you see guys sitting up there like Nolan and again, an incredible person. Obviously, he has unbelievable traits in his body, a leader and a winner. For us, we were fielding calls at that time, and I think Coach and I kind of looked at each other like this is the guy.
The Eagles traded up from that No. 10 pick to No. 9 to draft Jalen Carter and then landed his Georgia teammate later in the first round. While Carter will be expected to have a bigger role in his rookie season, Smith is entering a really ideal situation. In 2023, the Eagles bring back their starting edge rushers in Haason Reddick and Josh Sweat, as well as their top rotational player in Brandon Graham. All three of those players finished with double digit sacks in 2022. So Smith will enter his rookie season in a great spot: Because he’ll have opportunity without immense pressure.
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