The Eagles will pick 12th overall in the first round of the upcoming NFL Draft, having traded down from sixth overall in a deal with the Dolphins.
With Carson Wentz gone, Philly will likely roll with Jalen Hurts as its starter to begin next season, but the draft will be an opportunity to upgrade the weapons around Hurts.
Hopefully for the Eagles, they don't replicate their draft fortunes from these previous five picks, which make up the biggest draft busts in franchise history:
Leonard Renfro
Renfro was selected 24th overall in the 1993 draft, with the Eagles having high hopes for the defensive tackle despite being slightly undersized.
Boy did Philly get this one wrong.
Renfro went on to play in 23 games and never recorded a sack, starting just two games and never forcing a single fumble. He was out of the league by the time he turned 24 years old.
Freddie Mitchell
Yes, we know about the 4th-and-26 play that makes Mitchell a franchise legend, but aside from owning one of the most memorable catches in franchise history, the rest of Mitchell's Eagles career was entirely forgettable.
Drafted 25th overall in 2001, Mitchell appeared in all 16 games from 2002-2004, but never lived up to his first-round hype. He totalled 1,263 receiving yards in 63 games and just five touchdowns, and went on to publicly express his disdain toward the franchise, accusing Donovan McNabb of wanting him to fail, and how he felt neglected by Andy Reid.
Leroy Keyes
The Eagles could have had the top pick in the 1969 NFL Draft, Instead, a meaningless late-season winning streak dropped them to third, where they still could have picked "Mean Joe" Greene, but instead took Keyes out of Purdue. It didn't work out, to say the least.
O.J. Simpson was the top overall pick that year, while Keyes never worked out at running back, rushing for 361 yards as a rookie and logging just four rushing attempts for the rest of his short career. He was moved to safety in the third year of his career, and was out of the league at 26 years old.
Antone Davis
The Eagles were so sold on Davis that they traded their first-round picks in 1991 and 1992 to take the offensive tackle at eighth overall in 1991. That's a trade the franchise would like to have back.
Davis played just five lackluster seasons with Philly before joining the Falcons for two more seasons. He later said his lack of success with the Eagles was due to a coaching carousel and a lack of stability within the franchise.
Jay Berwanger
The NFL Draft wasn't called the draft in 1936, but that was the year the NFL allowed teams to submit the names of college prospects they wanted to sign, marking the birth of the draft process.
The Eagles wish it started better for them.
Philly took Berwanger first overall after an All-American season at Chicago, only Berwanger didn't want to play football. He asked for an absurd amount of money ($1,000 per game, when most players made at most $100 per game), and the Eagles traded his rights to the Bears. So the Eagles' top draft pick never played a snap with the team. That's about as bust as it gets.
