A look back at the college prospects the Eagles held private workouts with last year

by JimmyK on Mar 7, 2011 10:16 AM EST in Philadelphia Eagles News

This past Saturday, Pro Football Talk reported that the Eagles and Browns each had scheduled a private workout with the combine's fastest man, cornerback Demarcus Van Dyke. With that in mind, I thought it might be fun to look back at who the Eagles had private workouts with last offseason leading up to the draft:

Player	Pos	School	Player	Pos	School
Javier Arenas	CB	Alabama	Robert McClain	CB	Connecticut
Eric Berry	FS	Tennessee	Zoltan Mesko	P	Michigan
Dezmon Briscoe	WR	Kansas	Earl Mitchell	DT	Arizona
Selvish Capers	OT	WVU	Arthur Moats	DE	James Madison
Jamar Chaney	ILB	Mississippi St.	Tony Moeaki	TE	Iowa
Anthony Davis	OT	Rutgers	Edward Morton-Green	WR	Morgan st.
Dexter Davis	DE	Arizona St.	Eric Moncur	DE	Miami
Jonathan Dwyer	RB	GT	Mike Newton	S	Buffalo
Marcus Easley	WR	Connecticut	Brian Price	DT	UCLA
A.J. Edds	LB	Iowa	Vincent Rey	LB	Duke
Jeffrey Fitzgerald	DL	KSU	Zac Robinson	QB	OK St.
Toby Gerhart	RB	Stanford	Charles Scott	RB	LSU
Brandyn Harvey	WR	Villanova	John Skelton	QB	Fordham
Joe Hawley	OL	UNLV	*Daniel Te'o-Nesheim*	DE	*Washington*
Jerry Hughes	DE	TCU	Jason Worilds	DE	Virginia Tech
Mike Iupati	G	Idaho	Roger Saffold	OT	Indiana
Deji Karim	RB	S. Illinois	Chris McCoy	DE/LB	Middle Tennessee St.
Sergio Kindle	OLB	Texas	*Ricky Sapp*	*DE/LB*	*Clemson*
Steve Maneri	TE	Temple

Of the 37 players they brought to the Novacare Complex, they drafted 4 - Jamar Chaney, Ricky Sapp, Daniel Te'o-Nesheim, and Charles Scott.

[Note by JasonB, 03/07/11 1:13 PM EST ] They also signed DE Eric Moncur as an undrafted free agent. He didn't make the team, but had two short stints with them in camp last year. Thanks to @PFF_John for that one.

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It’ll be interesting to see if we have the same results next time. Or after we work out some more maybe come back and ask which 10% do we think the Eagles will take.

by Sparki on Mar 7, 2011 10:47 AM EST reply actions

Yea it's very interesting how few they took out of the poeple they had workout for them

I wonder what this would be like for most NFL teams, whether the Eagles are the few who don’t draft many they had workout or if that is a common strategy for teams to use.

by flyeaglesfly1020 on Mar 7, 2011 10:53 AM EST up reply actions

I think 4 out of 37 is actually a pretty high number. Keep in mind there are 31 other teams drafting players as well.

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by JimmyK on Mar 7, 2011 10:56 AM EST up reply actions

Yes it’s very hard to really determine if it was alot or a little because you really need to know the situation for each. If for alot of these guys they could have drafted but they chose not to, than it is likely they use these workouts almost as decoys. However, its possible they simply would have drafted some of these guys if they could but they were unable to. In that case, the list of who they have workout could indeed tell who they’ll go after. If I did alot of research I could find out how many of them they could have drafted if they wanted. I think that’s a more tell-tale sign of the relevance of these sort of lists than just who they did draft.

by flyeaglesfly1020 on Mar 7, 2011 11:03 AM EST up reply actions

I meant to put just “could have” in bold to emphasize it. My bad

by flyeaglesfly1020 on Mar 7, 2011 11:04 AM EST up reply actions

I was thinking it to be high myself

4/37 when you factor in that there are 32 teams, and its a draft (first come first serve)… getting 10% seems like a high number.

by Sparki on Mar 7, 2011 11:30 AM EST up reply actions

forgot to mention

That you’d also need to factor in: The amount of that 37 who were scratched as prospects due to a bad work out…

by Sparki on Mar 7, 2011 11:32 AM EST up reply actions

Didn’t Eric Moncur play for the Eagles once upon a time?

"If I can get you to think twice, I'm in your head."
-Brian Dawkins

"Yeah, I like to hit people"
-Brandon Graham

by immynimmy on Mar 7, 2011 10:57 AM EST reply actions

Good call. Missed that. He was an undrafted free agent, and a camp cut.

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by JimmyK on Mar 7, 2011 11:01 AM EST up reply actions

Interesting.

I wonder if anyone but Chaney will be a contributor in the future. Or if he will be a contributor in the future.

by 999 on Mar 7, 2011 11:27 AM EST reply actions

Wonder how many of those turned into something decent in the NFL?

Essentially, how many were Jamar Chaney’s and how many were Charles Scott’s, of the ones they worked out

Oof.

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by benjapal on Mar 7, 2011 11:35 AM EST reply actions

I'm kind of upset that we worked out

Scott and still drafted him lol

Let's get it Birds.

by homestar2281 on Mar 7, 2011 11:52 AM EST reply actions

…and Te’o.

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by JimmyK on Mar 7, 2011 11:54 AM EST up reply actions

Man, everytime I think of that pick it hurts. Here is a list of players that were still on the boards at that time:

-Navarro Bowman
-Tony Moeacki
-Everson Griffen
-Bruce Cambell
-Aaron Hernandez
-AJ Edds

"If I can get you to think twice, I'm in your head."
-Brian Dawkins

"Yeah, I like to hit people"
-Brandon Graham

by immynimmy on Mar 7, 2011 12:08 PM EST up reply actions

Hell, even with Rocca’s pretty good year, I would’ve taken Mesko in the 3rd.

"If I can get you to think twice, I'm in your head."
-Brian Dawkins

"Yeah, I like to hit people"
-Brandon Graham

by immynimmy on Mar 7, 2011 12:09 PM EST up reply actions

what

DTMWTD

by alcatraz0109 on Mar 7, 2011 12:10 PM EST up reply actions

Nope

Jason Peters: Heart of a Lion, Face of a Chipmunk.

by DickMuffin on Mar 7, 2011 12:32 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

At least Mesko might’ve seen the field more than 4 times in an entire season.

"If I can get you to think twice, I'm in your head."
-Brian Dawkins

"Yeah, I like to hit people"
-Brandon Graham

by immynimmy on Mar 7, 2011 12:42 PM EST up reply actions

I don’t think I’d be pining for Griffen, Bowman, or Edds anytime soon.

Though Hernandez would’ve been nice.

DTMWTD

by alcatraz0109 on Mar 7, 2011 12:10 PM EST up reply actions

Griffen led all rookies in sacks IIRC, Edds got IR’ed, and okay, I can agree on Bowman.

"If I can get you to think twice, I'm in your head."
-Brian Dawkins

"Yeah, I like to hit people"
-Brandon Graham

by immynimmy on Mar 7, 2011 12:40 PM EST up reply actions

WOW, I was WRONG, I was confusing Griffen for Carlos Dunlap. My mistake.

"If I can get you to think twice, I'm in your head."
-Brian Dawkins

"Yeah, I like to hit people"
-Brandon Graham

by immynimmy on Mar 7, 2011 12:41 PM EST up reply actions

I do grab him in Madden

and stash him for 2 years. by year 3, he’s like an 80 and not too bad for a rotational.

by corn on the kolb on Mar 7, 2011 12:42 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah Griffen did next to nothing this year and to boot got arrested twice in three days after the season was over.

DTMWTD

by alcatraz0109 on Mar 7, 2011 12:52 PM EST up reply actions

Both of those picks were painful.

by 92-74-99-96 on Mar 7, 2011 12:44 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

dont give up on Te'o

still… holding….out….hope…

by EnderLite on Mar 7, 2011 1:10 PM EST up reply actions

DTO is going to do some damage this year under Washburn. Dude started all 49 games of his career and recorded 194 tackles, 30 sacks, 50.5 tackles for loss, eight forced fumbles, and two fumble recoveries. Named 2nd team All Pac-10 as well. He’s got talent. He did pick up a sack week 17 against to ’Boys to end the regular season!

by Route36 on Mar 7, 2011 2:25 PM EST up reply actions

ha! that sack was BS… like going out to check the mail.

by Bleediots on Mar 7, 2011 2:41 PM EST up reply actions

I wonder what this year's Workout Theme will be?

Last Year’s was “High Motor” men…..

….What will it be this year?

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by BWestFactor on Mar 7, 2011 12:07 PM EST reply actions

Another Reason

When they do these workouosts they get to have the coaches spend more one on one time with a player and get a better “feel” for their football smarts and personality. Both of those attributes are perhaps undervalued in the combines desire for quantifiable measurables.

by Claudius on Mar 7, 2011 12:18 PM EST reply actions

I wish we had drafted the kid from GT

Dwyer is exactly the change of pace back that we need. I think he was drafted late too.

by Saidrick on Mar 7, 2011 1:36 PM EST via mobile reply actions

He only played in one more NFL game than I did.

DTMWTD

by alcatraz0109 on Mar 7, 2011 2:53 PM EST up reply actions

it’d be interesting to know how many of these players were taken by another team that brought them in for private workouts… in other words, does having private workouts for a team make it more likely that they’ll draft you, and by how much?

by igglemethis on Mar 7, 2011 2:07 PM EST reply actions