UPDATE: I have switched the code to use CBS Rankings after some people noticed errors in the DraftTek Big Board. Oddly enough this big board has >1000 players but they have ~500 of them hidden. This actually improves the Interest Matrix for those less touted UDFA Prospects.

Last year I set out to make an Eagles Only 7 round mock draft based only on they players that they prioritized with meetings and visits (See here). It was a fun project and gave me (and hopefully others) some insight into the draft, though it was not incredibly accurate. In fact only one player named in the post ended up on the Eagles, Jeremy Reaves, and he now plays for Washington. A lot of things went wrong: The Eagles traded back, some visits (such as Goedert) were not reported or came out after the fact, just because a player visited does not mean the visit went well (Derrius Guice), and some visits are purposely deceptive or for future trade/free agency data gathering. The real value in this study was to see what positions were of particular interest and what sort of draft capital the team was willing to spend on such a player, which I visualized in the "Interest Matrices".

This year I have decided to step it up in a couple ways. Mainly, instead of tediously copying rankings and visit report data manually into an excel spreadsheet, I have made a Matlab code that does all the work for me. Also, since the code makes pulling the data much simpler, I have expanded the Mock Draft to cover the entire draft and include 400 draft prospects on each teams draft board.

Basically what my script does is assign each player a score between 0 and 1 based entirely on the rankings from .CBS Sports. Next, for each player it sets a team specific modifier based on the number and times of meetings that occurred and a separate modifier based on the each team's interest in the player's position at their projected daft area (Early, Middle, Late, UDFA). Each type of visit is weighted the same except the Private work outs count as two times as much. A ~1000 player draft board is then created for each team based on the product of those 3 scores, as well as the Interest Matrix. Finally, the code runs a draft simulation where the best available player is selected for each team. To better balance the selections, once a player of a certain position is selected, the position modifier (but not the other 2 scores) is negated for all remaining players of the same position. All of the meeting data and draft order were selected from Walterfootball.com.

Below is the first round of the mock draft generated by my code. At this point I would like to remind everyone that I am nerd who knows nothing about film study (beyond what I learn from the Kist & Solak Show) and that I am reliant on the CBS rankings for the player evaluation. The full 7 rounds, along with Draft Boards and Interest Matrices for the NFC East can be found HERE. For anyone who is particularly nerdy, I have added the formulas used to calculate the player ranking values and if I have time before the draft I may dump all 32 team's draft boards in as well.

Round Pick Number Team Player Position 1 1 Arizona Nick Bosa DL 1 2 San Francisco Quinnen Williams DL 1 3 New York Jets Josh Allen DL 1 4 Oakland Rashan Gary DL 1 5 Tampa Bay Ed Oliver DL 1 6 New York Giants Kyler Murray QB 1 7 Jacksonville Montez Sweat DL 1 8 Detroit Brian Burns DL 1 9 Buffalo Jawaan Taylor OL 1 10 Denver Dwayne Haskins QB 1 11 Cincinnati Devin White LB 1 12 Green Bay Jonah Williams OL 1 13 Miami Jeffery Simmons DL 1 14 Atlanta Andre Dillard OL 1 15 Washington Drew Lock QB 1 16 Carolina Cody Ford OL 1 17 New York Giants Clelin Ferrell DL 1 18 Minnesota Noah Fant TE 1 19 Tennessee Christian Wilkins DL 1 20 Pittsburgh Byron Murphy CB 1 21 Seattle Chauncey Gardner-Johnson S 1 22 Baltimore D.K. Metcalf WR 1 23 Houston Kaleb McGary OL 1 24 Oakland Devin Bush LB 1 25 Philadelphia Josh Jacobs RB 1 26 Indianapolis Jerry Tillery DL 1 27 Oakland Terry McLaurin WR 1 28 Los Angeles Chargers Juan Thornhill S 1 29 Kansas City Dexter Lawrence DL 1 30 Green Bay Daniel Jones QB 1 31 Los Angeles Rams Taylor Rapp S 1 32 New England A.J. Brown WR



Below are the selections and Interest Matrix for the Eagles. I am not sure why Walter Football says that the Eagles still have a 7th round pick but just ignore that...

Round Pick Number Team Player Position 1 25 Philadelphia Josh Jacobs RB 2 53 Philadelphia Amani Oruwariye CB 2 57 Philadelphia L.J. Collier DL 4 128 Philadelphia Ben Powers OL 4 139 Philadelphia Dax Raymond TE 5 164 Philadelphia Hunter Renfrow WR 6 199 Philadelphia Dontavius Russell DL 7 224 Philadelphia Gardner Minshew II QB

Position Early Mid Late UDFA Total QB 0 0 1 0 1 RB 1 5 2 1 9 WR 2 0 4 3 9 TE 1 0 1 2 4 OL 4 1 1 5 11 S 3 0 0 2 5 CB 1 1 2 1 5 LB 0 0 0 3 3 DL 6 4 10 1 21 PK 0 0 0 0 0 P 0 0 0 2 2 Total 18 11 21 20 70

Some Notes: