PHILADELPHIA -- There hasn’t been anything close to enough time to assess whether Chip Kelly will excel as the Philadelphia Eagles’ top personnel man. There has been time to assess the challenges facing Kelly as he assumes the throne lost by former general manager Howie Roseman.

It has been difficult to analyze the way the Eagles have made draft decisions in the past. That is deliberate on the team’s part. Owner Jeff Lurie has favored a consensus-based approach with no clearly identified decision-maker at the controls.

Chip Kelly will have a chance to prove his personnel acumen going forward. Kelley L Cox/USA TODAY Sports

So no one knows for sure who thought Louisville linebacker Marcus Smith II was a good first-round pick in the 2014 draft. The explanation given for Smith’s wasted rookie season -- that he was behind good players such as Connor Barwin and Trent Cole at outside linebacker -- would have been an excellent reason not to select an outside linebacker at that spot. There were several cornerbacks available to the Eagles in the first round. Maybe one of those would have made a difference in 2014 and beyond.

But it doesn’t matter, really, who carried the day and got Smith. What matters is that the combination of men who made that pick has been completely changed. Roseman, Kelly and Tom Gamble won’t be reaching a consensus during the 2015 draft. Kelly and the personnel man he hires will be making the picks.

We don’t know if that will be a good process. But we do know that the 2014 draft resulted from a bad process.

The biggest doubts about Kelly’s aptitude have been raised by Kelly himself. The coach is the one who volunteered the anecdote about taking Oregon defensive end Taylor Hart in last year’s draft. Kelly told reporters that he wanted to draft Hart in the third round. Roseman explained that Hart would still be available in the fifth round.

This is an aspect of the draft that isn’t obvious to the casual observer. It requires one skill to look at all the incoming players and distinguish the future NFL stars from the group. There is another skill in understanding how teams value their picks and choose to spend them. Using a third-round pick on a fifth-round player is like volunteering to pay $10 a gallon for gas. It just doesn’t make sense.

Never mind that Hart appears to be a poor fifth-round choice. The Eagles once got Cole -- now second all-time to Reggie White on their list of quarterback sacks -- in the fifth round. Hart might blossom into a fine player, but he was inactive for all 16 games as a rookie. There is no reason to think he was a good pick in the fifth round, let alone the third.

But here’s the thing: The fact Kelly revealed that exchange with Roseman tells you that he wasn’t embarrassed about it. He wasn’t hiding it. He learned something about how the NFL works. Given everything else we see from Kelly, it is reasonable to expect that if he learned it, he will not make a mistake like that again.

The biggest worry when it comes to Kelly is his apparent acceptance of the team as it is constituted. If you’re tasked with building a championship-caliber NFL team then you need to have a vision for how to acquire and develop the right kinds of players. Kelly really has seemed comfortable taking the roster he inherited and trying to get the most out of it.

That’s fine for a coach. For a GM, it is vital to see the weaknesses on the current roster and have the skills to find and acquire upgrades. Can Kelly do that? We’re all about to find out.