With the 37th Pick in the 2010 Stampede Blue Community Mock Draft, the Philadelphia Eagles select...

by mgrex03 on Apr 6, 2010 7:59 PM EDT in Community Mock Draft

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Taylor Mays, S - Southern Cal

Pick made by TehRhino:

Even before Sheldon Brown was traded to Cleveland, the Eagles had major needs in the secondary. Now that Brown is a Brown, rumors are floating around that either Macho Harris or free agent signee Marlin Jackson may be moved to cornerback, creating a need for depth at the safety spot. Mays is a physical specimen with high intelligence and quality work ethic, and his speed and hard hitting will be welcomed after several seasons in which the Eagles' secondary was allowed to get too old.

The knock on Mays is that he needs work on his coverage skills and too often looks for the knockout hit. A year spent in a rotation with Jackson and the Quintins (Demps and Mikell) should help Mays develop his skills without him being a liability.

How will he impact the 2010 Eagles?

As a rookie in 2010, Mays will probably work best as an in-the-box safety in run support and in a rotation with the current crop of Eagles safeties. Keeping Mays on a pitch count and bringing him along slowly will also keep him fresh and possibly help him bring a fresh body to a late-season playoff push while giving him the tutelage and time to develop into a top-tier starter in his second year.

Mays's Scouting Report from Mocking the Draft

First Round pick for the Eagles: Jerry Hughes

The Browns, and 2ndBlueGeneration, are on the clock...

First Round:

Pos	Team	Player	Pos	School	Drafter
1	St. Louis	Jimmy Clausen	QB	Notre Dame	TouchdownColts
2	Detroit	Russell Okung	OT	Oklahoma St.	coltsfan723
3	Tampa Bay	Ndamukong Suh	DT	Nebraska	TheAngelsColts
4	Washington	Sam Bradford	QB	Oklahoma	Colts Homer
5	Kansas City	Eric Berry	S	Tennessee	sanders_fan89
6	Seattle	Gerald McCoy	DT	Oklahoma	shake n bake
7	Cleveland	Earl Thomas	S	Texas	2ndBlueGeneration
8	Oakland	Bruce Campbell	OT	Maryland	LovinBlue
9	Buffalo	Bryan Bulaga	OT	Iowa	Cassieper
10	Jacksonville	Rolando McClain	LB	Alabama	peytonsthebest
11	Denver	Derrick Morgan	DE	Georgia Tech	JPBarnett
12	Miami	Dez Bryant	WR	Oklahoma St.	fpacheco
13	San Francisco	Joe Haden	CB	Florida	BlueVol03
14	Seattle	Charles Brown	OT	USC	shake n bake
15	N.Y. Giants	C.J. Spiller	RB	Clemson	gizzardfanny
16	Tennessee	Jason Pierre-Paul	DE	South Florida	Addai Another Day
17	San Francisco	Mike Iupati	G	Idaho	BlueVol03
18	Pittsburgh	Kyle Wilson	CB	Boise St.	LV Steelers Fan
19	Atlanta	Brandon Graham	DE	Michigan	fiftycal2004
20	Houston	Dan Williams	DT	Tennessee	Aerostar193
21	Cincinnati	Sean Weatherspoon	OLB	Missouri	FineClub
22	New England	Jared Odrick	DE	Penn State	skywalker
23	Green Bay	Trent Williams	OT	Oklahoma	bracketismyboy
24	Philadelphia	Jerry Hughes	OLB	TCU	TehRhino
25	Baltimore	Jermaine Gresham	TE	Oklahoma	SupermanWearsBobSander'sPJs
26	Arizona	Sergio Kindle	DE/OLB	Texas	NYKings
27	Dallas	Anthony Davis	OT	Rutgers	SupermanWearsBobSander'sPJs
28	San Diego	Ryan Mathews	RB	Fresno State	chad72
29	N.Y. Jets	Golden Tate	WR	Notre Dame	diagenesis
30	Minnesota	Maurkice Pouncey	G/C	Florida	DClark#44
31	Indianapolis	Devin McCourty	CB	Rutgers	mgrex03
32	New Orleans	Carlos Dunlap	DE	Florida	palco

Second Round:

Pos	Team	Player	Pos	School	Drafter
33	St. Louis	Ricky Sapp	DE	Clemson	TouchdownColts
34	Detroit	Jahvid Best	RB	California	coltsfan723
35	Tampa Bay	Everson Griffen	DE	USC	TheAngelsColts
36	Kansas City	Terrence Cody	DT	Alabama	sanders_fan89
37	Philadelphia	Taylor Mays	S	USC	TehRhino
38	Cleveland				2ndBlueGeneration
39	Oakland				LovinBlue
40	San Diego				chad72
41	Buffalo				Cassieper
42	Tampa Bay				TheAngelsColts
43	Miami				fpacheco
44	New England				skywalker
45	Denver				JPBarnett
46	N.Y. Giants				gizzardfanny
47	New England				JPBarnett
48	Carolina				Bullard47
49	San Francisco				BlueVol03
50	Kansas City				sanders_fan89
51	Houston				Aerostar193
52	Pittsburgh				LV Steelers Fan
53	New England				skywalker
54	Cincinnati				FineClub
55	Philadelphia				TehRhino
56	Green Bay				bracketismyboy
57	Baltimore				SupermanWearsBobSander'sPJs
58	Arizona				NYKings
59	Dallas				jules62
60	Seattle				shake n bake
61	N.Y. Jets				diagenesis
62	Minnesota				Dclark#44
63	Indianapolis				mgrex03
64	New Orleans				palco

Poll

How did the Eagles do with the McNabb draft pick at #37?

Correct Pick. Much needed upgrade to the Secondary.

51 votes

Right Position, Wrong Player

4 votes

OK pick, but a few too many questions about Mays

17 votes

Wrong pick. Other positions definitely should be addressed first.

4 votes

76 votes | Poll has closed

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Taylor Mays <3

by BlueKrew on Apr 6, 2010 8:29 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

IMO, Mays is worth the risk here for the Eagles

They have a need at safety, and this is OK value.

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Can't you just feel the love?

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by LV Steelers Fan on Apr 6, 2010 10:48 PM EDT reply actions

Freudian slip on the poll question?

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Apr 7, 2010 1:25 PM EDT reply actions

No

I think the poll question is referring to the fact that this is a draft pick that came from Washington in the McNabb trade. In essence, this is what the Eagles are getting for McNabb this year.

by TehRhino on Apr 7, 2010 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions