PHILADELPHIA – DeVonta Smith will not be any heavyweight nonetheless the outmoded Alabama well-known individual obvious put together some highly effective manufacturing for the Crimson Tide, collecting over 1,800 yards receiving and 23 touchdowns en route to the Heisman Trophy and a nationwide championship in 2020.
It took some prodding sometime of the Crimson Tide’s Pro Day availability on Monday, nonetheless Smith eventually admitted that he weighed 170 pounds, a in truth perfect quiz ticket relating to his high-10 draft dwelling.
By some means, even if, he’s in the equation to be true that, along with two other WRs, his teammate Jaylen Trudge and Ja’Marr Fling of LSU.
The Eagles are anticipated to capture into consideration all three if available at No. 6 overall.
Smith would be a engaging selection as a connection for Jalen Hurts, as soon as a Smith teammate in Tuscaloosa before a grad switch to Oklahoma where the quarterback used to be the runner-up to 2019 Heisman winner Joe Burrow.
Hurts and Smith performed together at Alabama for two seasons and the Eagles’ projected starting up QB used to be the man for the Crimson Tide when Smith arrived as a freshman. The 2 live shut and spoke sooner than Smith’s Pro Day and participating in together in Philadelphia did advance up.
“Me and Jalen, we did discuss currently, no longer true about [playing together], nonetheless true how the job and things are going,” Smith said. “And how’s my training been going, and catching up on existence things and stuff treasure that.”
Unnecessary to stutter, Smith may perhaps maybe well moreover moreover land in Miami with Tua Tagovailoa, his QB from 2019, whereas Mac Jones, his 2020 signal-caller may perhaps maybe well be a fellow first-spherical web this April. Such is existence with Cut Saban and Alabama.
Wherever Smith lands will almost completely characteristic some Crimson Tide-tint,
“It would be a blessing true to listen to any team name my name,” he said.
Smith’s manufacturing at Alabama used to be other-worldly nonetheless most scouts maintain placed him in the serve of Fling and Trudge on the pause of the draft due to his lack of size and the Louisiana native wasn’t precisely angry by speaking about his weight which had been listed at 165, after reducing weight sometime of the Tide’s season.
Some maintain mentioned the success of DeSean Jackson when pointing to Smith nonetheless the ex-Eagles receiver, who true signed with his fatherland Los Angeles Rams, used to be moreover a 2nd-spherical selection at No. 49 overall serve in 2008, no longer a likely high-10 web.
Smith’s floor in the first spherical is the pause half no matter the questions over his weight and he’ll let his tape discuss for itself, passing on any on-self-discipline work on the official day keep for Tuesday.
As the pause program in college football, Alabama had quite loads of other doable official abilities available, including center Landon Dickerson who admitted he met with the Eagles.
All-Pro center Jason Kelce is returning for the 2021 season for Philadelphia, nonetheless the gentle has admitted persevering with his profession is a year-by-year proposition at this point, and finding the heir obvious must be on Jeff Stoutland’s thoughts.
There are quite loads of in-dwelling candidates, including 2nd-year undrafted free agent Luke Juriga besides Nate Herbig, who can play all three interior line positions, and even starting up left guard Isaac Seumano, a versatile participant whose simplest keep used to be projected to be center by the Eagles, on the least early in his profession.
Dickerson, who started his college profession at Florida Sing before tantalizing to Alabama as a grad switch, tore his true ACL in the SEC Championship Sport against Florida nonetheless did dress for the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship Sport and entered the game for the closing snap of Alabama’s 52-24 procure over Ohio Sing.
“Honestly, I don’t know the arrangement mighty I’ll be doing at Pro Day (on Tuesday),” said Dickerson, the winner of the Rimington Trophy because the nation’s simplest center. “Reassuring groups doesn’t settle on to advance serve from what I enact on the self-discipline. They’ll stumble on the movie and witness in the event that they wish me or no longer. They’ll moreover check with our trainers and doctors in the event that they wish to identify more intimately.
“It’s going in truth true. I’m true on schedule. I’m true where I’d like to be. Couldn’t query for the rest more.”
Along with the Eagles, Dickerson moreover mentioned meetings with the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers.
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