The DiCecco Daily: Takeaways From Eagles Drafting WR Makai Lemon In Round 1
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
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In this episode, he goes through the Eagles' reasons for drafting Makai Lemon in the first round Thursday and what to look for Friday on Day 2.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's going on, everyone? Welcome into another episode of DeCecho Daily. It's Andrew |
| 0:14.6 | DeCecho here, Eagles beat reporter for Inside the Burrs.com. Well, it was draft night, and it's been a late one here. I'm driving home now from the |
| 0:22.7 | Jefferson Health Training Complex, but I wanted to make sure that I gave you all my thoughts |
| 0:27.7 | on the pick while it's still fresh in my mind and give you my immediate reaction. So the Eagles |
| 0:34.5 | trade up three picks from 23, and they draft wide receiver Mackay Lemon. |
| 0:41.2 | And interestingly enough, Mackay Lemon wasn't a name that I even considered because I expected him to be long gone before the Eagles were on the clock. |
| 0:50.5 | Now, there was a run on offensive tackles early, especially when Monroe Freeling went to the Carolina Panthers, as I'm trying to remember this, because it was all blur. |
| 1:02.9 | He goes to the Carolina Panthers, and then the Eagles trade up, presumably to get ahead of the Stewards. |
| 1:09.0 | And I immediately thought that it was going to be Maxi and Achor because I didn't think that, |
| 1:14.8 | I mean, it was clear that the Stewards were going to be targeting a offensive alignment, |
| 1:19.6 | given their needs there. |
| 1:20.9 | And it felt like that was going to be the pick. |
| 1:24.1 | But the Eagles take a wide receiver, and they get tremendous value there. |
| 1:29.5 | Now, the compensation is another thing altogether because they gave up the two fourth round picks. |
| 1:35.9 | They had 114 and 137, and Dallas gets that, and they get pick 233, |
| 1:43.4 | and the Eagles get a 2027 seventh round pick. |
| 1:46.8 | And so that's a pretty steep, you know, that's a pretty steep compensation when you consider everything. |
| 1:54.3 | Now, Mackay Lemon, the player, he is 511, 192 pounds, a very razor sharp route runner and can separate. |
| 2:04.9 | Kind of reminds me of Amman Ross St. Brown in his physicality after the catch. |
| 2:09.6 | I think he's going to be most lethal in the slot when he look at his body type and his route running prowess. |
| 2:19.6 | And 21 years old, he was 2025 Bolitnikoff award winner had a very productive final season there at USC and was one of |
| 2:27.4 | the top receivers in this draft class so you should be excited that the Eagles added to the |
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