Hello there. What did you do? How are you? And welcome to episode five of Above the Nest

with Rachel brought to you by SB Nation and Bleeding Green Nation. It's a great day

to talk football that is Eagles football. Of course, and I'm your host, Rachel Privet,

getting you hip very quick to what's happening. Today is Friday, April 30th, and is it just me

or are you still overwhelmed with emotion from last night? My goodness, the Philadelphia Eagles

traded up two spots from number 12 to number 10 with their rivals, the Dallas Cowboys,

Indrafted, Alabama, Wide Receiver, and Heisman, Trophy, Winner, Davante Smith. It doesn't get any

better than this. I hope that you guys are hyped. This is what you've been waiting for. The Eagles

finally got it right. Shout out to Eagles General Manager, Howie Roseman. He definitely read the

room with this one. And this is a huge move for the Eagles. We love to see it. I hope you guys

are proud of Howie because clearly he listened. I'm convinced that he heard about those

fire how he can't and he decided to move. He knew that his city and his fans would be pleased

with this pick. Here's what he got to say about his excitement with Davante Smith joining the Eagles

and making the trade. Really excited to get Davante Smith. He's very highly rated on our board.

Someone who we feel like is not only a great player but a great person and will come in

and be ready to roll. We talked about it through the draft process about getting guys in here

who could help us build the type of culture we want. We had a plan that we talked about and we

had a list of guys that we were really targeting in the draft and with the amount of picks that

we had, the flexibility we had because of the picks, we felt like it was important to get one

of those guys and that's why we made the trade up to go again. As much as we look at the mock drafts

even more importantly, we make sure that we do our board and we have 12 players that we really

like and Davante was standing out on our board. His grade, the kind of player he is, the type of person

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