Eagles Need Big Impact From 2023 Draft Class To Get Where They Want To Go

The Eagles 2023 draft class needs to achieve liftoff this season, which, in non-NASA terms means, the class will be counted on to make a big jump from Year 1 to Year 2.

Or, if you prefer the NASA way, Neil Armstrong’s 1969 quote heard round the world can be tweaked to, “One small step for (general manager) Howie Roseman, one giant leap to the Super Bowl.”

However you want to put it, the class from two years has a chance to be the best to arrive since the 2018 class and, to a lesser extent so far, the 2021 group.

It’s rare when hits outnumber misses, but that’s what happened in both those classes and the group from last year could be the next wave to wash in rather than out.

Here’s the 2023 group, that could potentially include five starters, a key backup, and a third-string quarterbacks:

Jalen Carter, first round. He was the runner up for Defensive Rookie of the Year and, with Fletcher Cox gone, Carter will be given every chance to maximize his enormous potential.

“I’m very comfortable,” he said last month. “I was comfortable last year. I didn’t have too much pressure on my back, especially with Fletcher and all them guys giving me a lot of confidence and stuff like that. But I’m still the same. I’m just here to be better.”