Daily News | Eagles draft: Todd McShay and Mel Kiper see Birds upgrading trenches over taking RB Bijan Robinson
during free agency, Texas running back Bijan Robinson has been linked to the Birds as a first-round selection.
ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay views Robinson as a top-five player in this class, but finding a landing spot for the Longhorns standout has been “a challenge.”“It could be 18 [with the Lions], it could be the Cowboys trading up from 26 to the teens to get him, it could be the Chargers at 21, it’s hard to find a landing spot for him,” McShay explained via a media call after releasing his
While McShay views Robinson as a “slightly better prospect” than the Giants’ Barkley, who went No. 2 overall in the 2018 NFL Draft, his colleague, Mel Kiper Jr., is more in line with the modern NFL — you don’t draft first-round running backs. “For Bijan, it’s not a fact of ‘well, we don’t value running backs at all’ but just first-round running backs you don’t, you don’t need to draft one in the first round,” Kiper said Wednesday morning during a media conference call. “Most teams have a pretty good stable of running back, not just one, even Detroit, where I have him going, has D’Andre Swift and David Montgomery.
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