Go Birds! 2026 NFL Draft Preview: Linebackers
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The 2026 NFL Draft is just around the corner which means it is time to dig into the prospects that could become Eagles very soon. In today’s episode Eliot Shorr-Parks breaks down the top linebacker prospects in the draft and debates which ones could be potential fits for Vic Fangio's defense.
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| 0:00.0 | Go Birds! |
| 0:05.0 | What's going on, everybody? Let's go. Let's get into it. Let's get on the clock with another edition of the GoBird's on the clock 2026 NFL draft preview. |
| 0:17.0 | Looking at every position in the draft before, the draft happens one week from today, which is crazy. |
| 0:23.7 | We're only one week away. |
| 0:25.4 | And one week, we will get a new player potentially that will become one of the most important |
| 0:30.1 | people in our lives. |
| 0:31.1 | And we will say their name a ton over the next few years. |
| 0:33.8 | So it's only natural on a week before the draft to talk about a position that is without |
| 0:39.9 | question the least likely to be drafted early on by this team. You can talk yourself into them |
| 0:45.4 | taking almost any position in the first three rounds. Quarterback, definitely safety, |
| 0:51.9 | receiver, running back, running back probably low, but you can talk yourself |
| 0:55.9 | into it, right? Linebacker, I think, is a position where not only are they set for the starters |
| 1:03.5 | with Zach Bonn and Jehag Campbell, but have two excellent backups and well as well. |
| 1:08.3 | To have two excellent backups as well, wow, I really butcher that. |
| 1:12.7 | Have two excellent backups in Jeremiah Trotter and Smile Mondin Jr. as well. So they are pretty set |
| 1:18.4 | at this position. But when I tell you I'm going to preview every position in the draft, |
| 1:23.7 | I'm going to preview every position in the draft. So today we are going to look at the linebacker |
| 1:27.8 | position in this draft class, but obviously through different lenses than we've looked at other |
| 1:33.2 | positions. If you look at when we talk about running back, right, looked at a little more of the |
| 1:38.2 | lower late round picks, receiver, offensive line, quarterback, all those, like we looked at all of them. |
| 1:43.8 | For this one, we have one |
| 1:45.4 | thing in mind, and that is, can this linebacker play special teams? Now, obviously, they could |
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