Eagles News: Multiple final mock drafts have Philadelphia trading up for an offensive tackle

Q: Which offensive tackle are the Eagles expected to draft in 2026?

The Eagles are projected to draft either Kadyn Proctor from Alabama or Monroe Freeling from Georgia.

Q: What trades are the Eagles considering for the 2026 NFL Draft?

The Eagles are considering trades to move up in the draft, including deals with the Buccaneers and Cowboys to secure a higher pick for an offensive tackle.

Q: Why are the Eagles trading up in the draft?

The Eagles are trading up to secure a top offensive tackle to strengthen their aging offensive line and prepare for future needs.

Q: What is the significance of Kadyn Proctor's draft position?

Kadyn Proctor is expected to be a valuable pick due to his size and strength, making him a key target for the Eagles as they look to enhance their offensive line.

TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA - NOVEMBER 30: Kadyn Proctor #74 of the Alabama Crimson Tide during the first half of the game against the Auburn Tigers at Bryant-Denny Stadium on November 30, 2024 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (Photo by Jason Clark/Getty Images) | Getty Images ***Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles news and links …*** Daniel Jeremiah’s final 2026 NFL mock draft: Eagles, Saints among 4 teams to trade up – NFL.com 15) Philadelphia Eagles — OT Kadyn Proctor. PROJECTED TRADE WITH BUCCANEERS. I’m expecting a big trade market for the 16th overall pick, with teams looking to move ahead of the Lions for an offensive tackle. The Eagles trade up one spot higher to beat the competition for Proctor. [BLG Note: Worth noting here that Daniel Jeremiah had the Eagles taking Jihaad Campbell at No. 32 in his final mock draft last year.] Fran Duffy’s final 2026 NFL Mock Draft: We’ve arrived! – PHLY ***TRADE***\* The Philadelphia Eagles trade 1.23 and 3.98 to the Dallas Cowboys for 1.20 and 5.180. 20 – PHILADELPHIA EAGLES (FROM DAL) – T MONROE FREELING – GEORGIA. The board begins to dry up for the Eagles, and so I have them executing the same trade I had for them last week, moving up three spots to get Freeling from Georgia. Freeling doesn’t have to play right away and can develop behind the scenes behind and . 16) Philadelphia Eagles (TRADE with — Eagles give up third-and fourth-round picks in 2027): Monroe Freeling, OT, Georgia: The Eagles find a successor for Lane Johnson in Freeling, the player in this draft who is most like him. Freeling is inexperienced (17 career starts in college), but with the Eagles he’d be given time to develop behind the scenes while learning from one of the best offensive tackles in NFL history in Lane Johnson. Round 1: TRADE! Pick 22 (from ): Kadyn Proctor, OT, Alabama. Eagles trade picks 23 & 137 to LAC for pick 22. The Eagles are looking down the road, in the not-so-distant future, where the team’s uber-talented offensive line will need some new blood. Proctor slipped down the board just enough for us to pull the trigger on this deal, sacrificing a fourth-round compensatory pick to move up a spot to nab the 2nd-team All-American tackle. The Eagles had Proctor in for a Top 30 visit. This young man is a prototypical mass of humanity, a player nearly impossible to move off his spot. A player this big and strong shouldn’t be around in the 20s, but where Proctor leaves GMs wanting is when it comes to lateral movement. Quicker edge rushers tend to have their way with him. This inconsistency could lead to an eventual move inside to guard, where the Eagles also need help. NFL Network expert Brian Baldinger, who possesses one of the keenest eyes when it comes to the NFL Draft and interior line play, recently took a few minutes to discuss where potentially the Eagles could look in Thursday’s NFL Draft. With an aging, mending offensive line, Baldinger sees the Eagles taking a developmental offensive tackle like Utah’s Caleb Lomu with the 23rd overall pick. Lomu is only 19. He’s listed at 6-foot-6¼, 313 pounds. The NFL Draft is finally upon us. All the debating, consternation, and speculation comes to an end on Thursday night with the first round. We know that Fernando Mendoza is going No. 1 overall to the , but it’s all up in the air after that. After looking at our big board, team needs, and potential trades we have finally settled on our final mock draft for the 1st round in 2026. Putting this together was a collaborative effort by James Dator and Mark Schofield, alternating picks, discussing the board, and formulating trades together. We’re not going to tell you who made which picks, because if you want to yell at one of us, you yell at both of us. Without further ado here’s the mock, and after we’ll discuss the trades that we have taking place in the first round, as well as a few more notes. The biggest priority for me is getting an OT. The Eagles need a player to replace Lane Johnson and this class has good options so you need to get one now. Let him sit and learn. Or challenge at RG. Daniel Jeremiah posted his mock draft and had the Eagles trading to 15 to take OT Kadyn Proctor. Why 15? Had to get ahead of the Lions, who reportedly want him. It finally occurred to me who he reminds me of. Former Eagle Shawn Andrews. Injuried derailed his career, but when on the field he was a dominant blocker, especially in the run game. He was special. Proctor could challenge at RG this year and move to RT when Lane moves on. I can see Howie trying to pull this off. He covets players with special ability. Proctor can be special. You will hear a lot of talk about the run on OL. There will be one. The good news is that one of the OTs should make it to 23 if Howie can’t move up. Max Iheanachor should be there. If I can change the criteria, I’m going to specify a bigger trade-up into the top 13. The reason is that I think a trade to No. 16 is more plausible, considering the Eagles might need to leapfrog the (No. 17) to get a top offensive line target. I’ll stand by my view that Kadyn Proctor and Monroe Freeling would be the targets, and they might require a trade-up. It’s sounding more like the run on offensive line could come early, which would hurt the Eagles. If one or both are gone in the top half of the draft, then this is moot. If only one is available at No. 16, the Eagles might need to trade up to that spot to jump the Lions. If both are available, the Eagles can wait for a slight trade-up. It’s a matter of reading the board and figuring out where the players could go. It’s possible that one falls (as Proctor did in Dane Brugler’s mock draft last week). If you’re asking about a candidate for a major trade-up, I suppose if offensive tackle Francis Mauigoa starts to fall. There’s a lot of buzz about the offensive line class. Let’s call out a few first-round tackles to start. A lot of people I’ve talked to mention how many Clemson prospects underperformed in 2025, but right tackle Blake Miller just kept standing out. He’s durable, consistent and experienced, and that makes him a safer prospect. Listen for his name in the 20s. And then Georgia’s Monroe Freeling is an interesting one because he shot up the board after declaring for the draft but has quietly settled a little under the radar over the past month or so. I can’t get past the fit with Detroit at No. 17; the Lions need a left tackle, and Freeling is great in pass protection. But I don’t know if he even reaches Detroit. Field has him at No. 6 to , and I’ve similarly heard he could get into the top 14 picks. 23) Philadelphia Eagles: Caleb Lomu, OT, Utah. The Eagles’ affection for the position is no secret, and Lane Johnson will turn 36 next month, and Jordan Mailata is less than a year from turning 30. So, the raw, athletic Lomu is plugged into the pipeline, giving Philly a prototype to develop behind the cornerstones. The question, to me, would be whether they can move him inside to guard while Johnson and Mailata are still playing. The saga has been one of the defining offseason storylines, and while a post-June 1 trade to the has been expected, questions remain about the return. Glazer still believes the Eagles are holding firm on their demand for a first-round pick in any deal. “The Eagles are still looking for a first-round pick,” Glazer said. “I know the Patriots aren’t there yet.” Brown, 28, is under contract through the 2029 season and is coming off his least productive year since 2021 with the . He finished the season with 78 receptions for 1,003 yards and seven touchdowns, including seven games in which he was held under 50 yards. The and Patriots have been the two teams most closely linked to Brown, but all signs point toward him ultimately being dealt to , potentially as early as this summer. As talks continue, the final price tag and timing of any deal will likely depend on whether New England is willing to meet Philadelphia’s steep asking price. Both sides appear positioned for a standoff that could stretch deeper into the offseason as the draft approaches. The strategy is to stay true to the evaluation board, where players are ranked in tiers and then names are called based on the availability of those names when the Draft is live and the clock is ticking. “I feel like the draft is its own entity. You go into the draft and you have to take the best players available, certainly within a stack,” Roseman said recently when asked about the wide receiver position. His answer applies to every position, truly. “When you talk about best players available, it’s hard to stack guys and go, ‘Hey, this guy’s six, this guy’s ninth.’ But you do it based on tiers, based on tiers of the quality of the player. So within that tier that you’ve graded guys equally, you have a position that you think is more important to your scheme to where you are from a team building perspective, you may take the eighth guy over the sixth guy, but they’re going to be in the same tier. And so I think the biggest mistake we can make is assuming we know what the team’s going to look like a year from now, two years from now and missing out on a player because we have a perceived need and then we don’t fill the need because the player’s not good enough. I think that’s probably a long-winded way to say that nothing that we’ve done up until this point will affect the valuations that we have on draft day.” “It’s always tough to move off of a player that you feel is as good as Dontayvion was for us,” Gutekunst said. “I think he’s got a really bright career ahead of him. The situation we were kind of in with the amount of players we had in that room, what we’re probably going to do in the future, him being in the last year of his contract, it just made a little bit of sense. This year, coming out of the ’22 draft class, I think we were lucky enough to have retained a bunch of those guys. But a bunch of those guys signed elsewhere this year, too — we’re probably going to get compensatory picks for those players. I don’t know for sure if we’re going to be able to do that moving forward next year and the year after. What’s more is that right now the Cowboys have an enormous value on their hands. They may have had that with a deal taken care of last year, but right now Pickens is being had for a bargain relative to the receiver market as noted. This is certainly unfair for players in the NFL, but that is why the Cowboys are in such a position of advantage here that they haven’t held in these types of talks. The game is rigged for their side. And imagine if the Cowboys are wiped out and do take Tyson or Tate? They’d have more would-be leverage. For what it’s worth Stephen Jones said during the team’s pre-draft press conference that the Cowboys are going to have Pickens play on the tag in 2026 and will not be negotiating a long-term deal. That may be posturing, though. It is understandable for this to be a story, but right now the Cowboys don’t need to move on Pickens. Do you agree? ROUND 1 (Pick 7) – Carnell Tate, WR, Ohio State. As you can see above, there were two prospects left on my Big Board that I had as options with pick 7. was my top-rated prospect, and I was ready to pull the trigger on him – however I changed my mind. I ended up selecting Carnell Tate because I felt it was vital to surround with more weapons. Seeing what I saw last year when McLaurin was injured made me cringe. Tate also represents a player at a premium position. With Tate, Washington gets a Z receiver who is NFL ready day one. He has excellent hands and is the most polished route-runner in this class. He won’t have the immediate pressure to come in and function as WR1, and he can learn how to be a professional behind fellow Ohio State alum – and eventually step into Terry’s role once the team moves on. Pro Comparison: George Pickens. I strongly suspect that sentiment is pinned entirely on the selection of at 14th overall in 2022. However, Hamilton was widely regarded as a Top 5 (if not The Top) talent in that class and was likely several tiers higher than the surrounding talent at that spot. Will the Giants will have Downs graded THAT much higher than anyone else currently on the board that Harbaugh, Schoen, and the rest of the front office will “agree to agree” to make a historic investment in a position that already has multiple young players? Second is the ground shift on . In the matter of a few days we’ve gone from Styles being The Guy for the Giants who checks all of Harbaugh’s boxes and fits a key role in Wilson’s defense to the Giants being utterly and completely out on him. Over the last 48 hours or so we have seen a 180° about-face from every single outlet, with Daniel Jeremiah, Todd McShay, and Brugler all declaring that the Giants won’t take Styles. I call shenanigans. Either something big has come up behind the scenes with regards to Styles, or someone with a loud voice connected to many ears is producing a LOT of smoke. Vrabel addressed the media on Tuesday for the first time since the New York Post published photos of him embracing and holding hands with former Athletic reporter Dianna Russini at a resort in earlier this month. “I’ve had some difficult conversations with people that I care about, with my family, the organization, the coaches, the players,” said Vrabel, who called it a “personal and private matter” in his statement. “Those have been positive and productive. I believe in order to be successful on and off the field, you have to make good decisions. That includes me. That starts with me.” Vrabel, who has two sons with his wife, Jen, will spend the weekend with his family outside of Massachusetts, according to ESPN. The coach shared that he will remain in contact with the team on the final day of the draft and “expressed confidence in executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf and vice president of player personnel Ryan Cowden to lead the draft room.” In the first Philadelphia Flyers home playoff game – with fans – since 2018, the Flyers gave the home crowd plenty to cheer about as they defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in a physical 5-2 victory. [BLG Note: I was in the building last night and it was electric. From an Eagles-related standpoint, and were shown on the big screen. Let’s go Flyers.] At the top of the Vox Media hierarchy is SB Nation, a network of sports blogs that brings in between $50 million and $100 million in revenue, according to a person familiar with its finances. 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