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Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Data: Size, Strength Overshadows Speed For NFL Draft WR Class

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Birds

Football, Sports

4.6910 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

ITB analytics expert Sam Finkel joins ITB host Geoff Mosher to go inside athletic testing by wide receivers at the NFL Scouting Combine, and why this year's class appears to be a group defined more by size and strength than blinding speed.

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome back to Inside the Data on Inside the Birds.

0:12.5

I'm Jeff Mosher, and of course we got our data and analytics expert, Sam Finkel, as we continue, as we get closer to the draft, now less than a week away, Sam,

0:23.5

to go through athletic testing as it pertains to these NFL draft eligible players.

0:31.0

And what the Eagles prefer, we've done a lot of positions in this episode, Sam,

0:35.4

we're going to do wide receivers.

0:37.3

And there have been some positions that we've gone through where we've had to

0:41.3

couch how important athletic testing is to the position, some more than others, right?

0:47.8

In this one, I don't think that there's much of a debate.

0:50.0

You don't usually see guys at this position wide receiver drafted in round one, two,

0:55.1

and sometimes early three that don't at least meet some baseline top tier athletic criteria.

1:02.8

You know, the Anquan Boldens run a four seven.

1:04.9

You run a four seven, you're not going to probably get drafted in the first three rounds.

1:08.7

Yeah, totally agreed.

1:10.4

What did you think of this year's athletic, you know, this year's class and the athleticism of it?

1:16.2

Yeah, I mean, I think that this class is pretty athletic.

1:19.7

I think there's a decent amount of receivers that, you know, fit a pretty good athletic profile.

1:26.1

It's weird.

1:27.6

Despite the top guys, there's no one that really stands out crazy to me.

1:32.0

And I know that may be somewhat of a different, you know, opinion than some other people.

1:40.1

But all these prospects have like some sort of flaws.

1:43.3

There's no perfect receiver prospect.

1:45.4

But I do think it's a pretty relatively deep class.

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