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Welcome to the Eagles Update, your source for Philadelphia

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Eagles news and notes. It's Sunday,

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April thirtieth, Eagles and Satday Dave Spidero

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at the Novacare Complex. The Eagles finished

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their twenty twenty three NFL Draft

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in fine style on Saturday,

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drafting three players, cornerback

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Keeley Ringo from Georgia in the

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fourth round pick one oh five, overall,

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quarterback Tanner McKee from

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Stanford, round six, pick

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one eighty eight, and then in round seven,

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defensive lineman Moro Ojomo

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from Texas. The Eagles also

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acquiring running back DeAndre Swift

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from the Detroit Lions, sending

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them a future draft pick.

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Eagles general manager Howie Roseman talks

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about the deal and how it got done.

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You know, we went into this draft feeling really good

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about our running back room. We really liked

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the guys that we had on the roster. That

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we have on the roster, we think it's it was a talented

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group. It wasn't, in our mind a position

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that we're actively looking to upgrade.

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But at the same time, you know, we're always looking for opportunities

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to improve the team, and when

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this came about, we just felt really good about

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the player. We felt really good about the person, and

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it adds another tremendous

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player and person to our locker room. We feel

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like we really know who he is

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as a person, have a lot of connections

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with him. You know, I know I've mentioned his main name a lot,

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but again, you know, Dom has

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known him and his family for a long time, and

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so we knew him really

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throughout high school. He had been in the facility

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as a high schooler, so I had met him when he was in

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high school. So it's a kind of cool story of a local

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kid comes home and obviously a talented local

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kid.

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Swift, in his three years with the Lions a

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weapon, carrying the football four point

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six yards per carry. He's

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also a terrific receiver out of the backfield.

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The Eagles saw Swift in Week

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one of the twenty twenty two season. He

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had one hundred and fifty rushing yards

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and a touchdown, and he

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also had three catches thirty

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one yards. A big time player from Saint

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Joe's Prep, a native of Philadelphia,

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he returns home. The Eagles will

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use him in a lot of ways in the

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backfield, and the Eagles believe

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that this offense and the running game

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in particular gets a big boost.

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But you can definitely see his ability

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to make people miss in

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space, and you saw that against our defense last

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year, right, He had some unbelievable runs

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against us last year where you know, you

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look at each other and like, man, that guy's hard to tackle. So

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he has the ability to make you miss and also accelerate

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through the hole, which will service well. And you

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know, and some of the draws

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that we run and some of the RPOs that we run,

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and you know, I don't know exactly

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exactly how we'll use him perfectly

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with each individual run. You got to get your hands

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on him to see that. But also

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in the passing game, I think he's a dynamic playmaker

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that's done some things that that we've

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done with guys in the past with

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some of the different routes that he runs.

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But he has a great ability to read

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defenses out of the backfield, to make guys

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to separate from tight coverage out of the backfield,

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and has a really good hand. So you know, obviously

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again can't say enough about the running back room that

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we have. We're really excited about the pieces that we had

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going into the draft. And we're even more excited

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about it with the addition of DeAndre.

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So In all, the Eagles selecting seven players

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orchestrating trades, acquiring

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Swift, and continuing

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to build along the offensive and

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defensive lines in this twenty twenty

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three offseason. I'm Eagles insider Dave Spidero.

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Thanks for joining me for this Eagles update. Have

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yourself a great Eagles Day, Fly Eagles Fly

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and Gobert

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