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Go Birds! 2026 Draft Preview: How high would Eagles take a safety?

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Eagles enter the draft with the biggest need on the 2026 roster being in the secondary after losing Reed Blankenship to the Houston Texans. Would they use a premium pick on a safety in this year’s draft? Eliot Shorr-Parks discusses some of the top safety options and debates how high the team would take a safety in the draft.

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0:00.0

Go Birds.

0:07.0

What's going on, everybody? Let's go. Let's get into it. Let's go on the clock with another edition of the Go Birds on the Clock 2026 draft series previewing, a draft that is now less than two weeks away. So excited to talk today is today

0:23.1

is a big shift in the draft series, right? Last week, focused on the offense, every position on

0:28.9

the offensive side of the ball. And I think that's the position the Eagles will focus on, or the

0:33.3

side of the ball, I guess, I should say, that they will focus on in the draft. I do think that they want cheap starters on offense after they've had cheap starters on

0:42.5

defense the past few years.

0:43.8

And if you listen to the mock draft them yesterday, went all offense focused on the

0:47.8

offensive side of the ball.

0:49.0

But today, Monday, a fresh start to the week, a fresh side of the ball.

0:53.4

We're going to look at what is probably the biggest need on a fresh side of the ball. We're going to look at what is probably

0:54.9

the biggest need on the defensive side of the ball safety. Now, the interesting thing about

1:00.2

the safety position is it's probably not going to be the first pick that they take in the draft.

1:06.2

It wouldn't surprise me, actually, if they didn't address the position until later in the draft

1:10.7

or if they don't address it at all, right? Because if you didn't address the position until later in the draft or if they don't

1:12.1

address it at all, right? Because if you look at the safety position, they have, well, let's take a

1:16.6

look at the depth chart and where they are. So right now they have Andrew McCuba. We know he's

1:22.0

coming back second year. Really up and down rookie year made some big plays. The Chiefs game is one certainly you think of.

1:29.4

I believe he had an interception against Tampa Bay, if I'm not mistaken.

1:32.4

So he had those big moments.

1:34.3

And that was kind of what he was projected to be, right?

1:36.7

He was an undersized safety that created turnovers that was around the ball.

1:41.5

And that's what he proved to be.

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