The 2026 NFL Draft is just over a week away, and the mock draft industry has largely settled into six players that are getting mocked to the Eagles. It is entirely possible that the Eagles do not draft any of them if given the chance, but these are the most mocked, in no order.
OT Max Iheanachor, Arizona State
Pros: A very good, physical profile. At 6’6”, 321 lbs, and 33 ⅞” arms, he checks pretty much all the boxes that teams want in an OT, though he has, along with two other players, the smallest hands of all the OTs at the Combine
at 9.0”. In 19 starts over two seasons (5 in 2024, 14 in 2025) he was never credited with giving up a sack. As we’ll get to, he is quite raw, but he had a strong Senior Bowl and the Eagles are a team that has traditionally valued a good showing in Mobile. He has only ever played right tackle, which for the Eagles is a positive, he’s got enough development in front of him to do, the Eagles won’t have to add adjusting to a new side to his plate.
Cons: Iheanachor has only played football for five years, immigrating from Nigeria when he was 13 and attending a high school that didn’t have a football program. He is understandably raw, and any team that drafts him should consider 2026 a redshirt season. His footwork can be frenetic, his pad level is a little too high and stiff, he’s still figuring out what to do with his hands, and if he doesn’t get engaged immediately, such as against a stunt, he can get lost. All these issues are correctable and understandable given his lack of experience. If he’s on the board at 23, he might be the highest ceiling player available (that wouldn’t be a reach). He’s probably also going to have the lowest floor.
The Eagles of course can afford to be patient with him or any other OT. They’ve had success with similar backgrounds: Jordan Mailata never played football at all before being drafted, and Lane Johnson only played OT for three years before being drafted. But new OL coach Chris Kuper has little experience developing players.
OT Blake Miller, Clemson
Pros: Earned the starting RT job as a true freshman and never missed a game in four years. He’s one of the few guys on Clemson who didn’t disappoint in 2025.
Miller checks all the measurables that scouts want, and coaches are going to love him–he broke his wrist in spring practice in 2025 and felt embarrassed about it. Teams don’t draft guys in the 1st round because of character, but whoever takes Miller is going to have a nice off field bonus.
Miller is a mauler in the run game, and holds his own against the pass rush. He has the highest floor of the trio of OTs featured today. But he might have the lowest ceiling.
Cons: Miller is good at a lot of things, but he isn’t elite at any of them. In the first round, you’re looking for elite traits and skills to build off of. He plays with heavy feet against the pass, and when tied up with a defender he needs to anchor better. He weighed just 317 lbs at the Combine, a season of NFL strength training should do him good.
OT Kadyn Proctor, Alabama
Pros: When you get a chance to show a lineman highlight with the ball in his hands, you show it.. I can watch this all day:
TE1?
This is simplistic but being a starter from day one on a top SEC team is a pretty good accomplishment to have. He will be just 20 on draft day.
A question on Proctor is if he is too big to play OT at a high level. Those concerns are probably overblown. He has shown he can lose weight, “slimming” down to 369 in 2024, to 360 in 2025, and to 352 for the Combine. Getting sub-350 should be achievable. It may not be necessary, as Mike Renner points out there have been 10 tackles who weighed 350+ at the Combine and they’re either good players or guys who couldn’t play for reasons other than weight.
However all but one of those 10 players were taller than the 6’6” Proctor, with eight of them being 6’8”, their frame made it a little easier to carry that weight.
Cons: If Kadyn Proctor is a bust at tackle, it likely won’t be because of his weight, it will be because despite being a three year starter he’s still pretty raw, and he lacks elite traits and athleticism. At 6’6” he is certainly not short for an offensive tackle, but his arm length and 10 yard split are bottom quartile, his wingspan is below average, and he has sub-10 inch hands. Losing 30 pounds would make him quicker, but it won’t make him longer. It’s not all underwhelming, his vertical and broad jumps were excellent.
Despite being a three year starter on a top team, he never really lived up to the billing. If he gets his hands on a defender, it’s pretty much over for the defender. But if he can’t it’s pretty much over for Proctor, his feet kind of get stuck in the mud, and he tends to get lost in space in both the pass game and the run.
There are times where Proctor looks like possibly the best OT prospect in this draft, and there are times where he looks like his future in the NFL is at guard.
TE Kenyon Sadiq, Oregon
Pros: Explosive athlete. Only 10 WRs ran a faster 40 in the Combine, only one TE had a better vertical or broad. Teams draft for elite traits and Sadiq has some. He makes full use of his leaping ability by high pointing the ball like a WR.
Cons: Sadiq is a WR who plays TE. As a TE, he is 15th percentile in height, 9th in weight, 7th in arm length, 36th in wingspan. But as a WR he’s 81st percentile in height, and 72nd in wingspan; but also retains high explosiveness: 85th in the 40, 98th in the vertical, 95th in the broad jump.
While many feel that Sadiq is a good blocker, I just don’t see it. And his frame is going to limit his ceiling as an effective blocker at the NFL level.
Sadiq has only one year as a starter, which won’t scare off teams, but he faded hard late in the season, just 15 catches for 5.4 yards per catch and 0 TDs in his final four games. He was a non-factor in the playoffs with 70 yards in three games.
Evan Engram, who coincidentally was the 23rd overall pick in his draft year, is a good comp for him. Is that a guy you want to spend a 1st round pick on? On the one hand, Engram is a ten year veteran, which is a really good return for a 1st rounder. On the other hand, he’s never had a great season, his most productive season was when he was force fed the ball and was 12th in targets. Or more recently, Harold Fannin, but he was A) a 3rd round pick and B) led a terrible offense in targets.
EDGE Akheem Mesidor, Miami
Pros: Strong production, especially when it mattered. Over the last 8 games of the season he had 9 sacks and 12.5 tackles for loss. NFL teams value traits over production, but production isn’t nothing and Mesidor had more sacks, tackles for loss, and forced fumbles than co-star Rueben Bain. He’s quick off the snap and coaches will love his motor. Miami mostly played him as a hand in the ground pass rusher, but when they put him in space as a stand up OLB, he didn’t look out of place. Though he didn’t play a DE/DT tweener role, he may have the strength to hold it down in the NFL, but he would need to add some weight.
Cons: Older non-elite prospects are just a reality now, but Mesidor is old even by new standards, he turned 25 last week. He’s only four months younger than Nolan Smith, and one month younger than Jalyx Hunt. He was born one day after Jalen Carter.
And he didn’t break out until last year. In his first three seasons at Miami (after two at West Virginia) he had 13.5 sacks in 27 games. In 2025 he had 12.5 sacks in 15 games. Part of that is because he had a significant foot injury in the third game of 2023 that caused him to miss the rest of that season and the spring of 2024. He also had a minor foot injury in 2025 that cost him one game.
He’s undersized for an EDGE at 6’3”, 32nd percentile height, and he not only doesn’t make up for it in other areas, he’s got short arms at 32”, 10th percentile. Teams won’t hold it against him that he didn’t participate at the Combine, but he certainly didn’t help himself by sitting out.
He’s been consistently mocked in the mid-teens to early 20s in mocks, but everything about him says day two pick. His physical profile, age, potential medical concern, and late breakout are not the kind of profile that teams draft in the 1st round.
EDGE Keldric Faulk, Auburn
Pros: Big frame 6’6” with long arms and strong testing. He has a non-stop motor and Auburn lined him up all over the line, left and right edge, defensive tackle, and occasionally dropped him into coverage from an OLB spot.
Faulk doesn’t turn 21 until the season starts and everyone at Auburn raves about his character (even if the coaches themselves don’t have it).
There are no sure things in the draft but his combination of traits, age, and all around game bode well.
Cons: Faulk can be slow off the snap, or sometimes will jump the count. His pass rush moves are limited, and he has trouble shedding blocks.
After a 7 sack, 11 tackle for loss season in 2024, entered the season in the mix for EDGE1. Finished with 2 sacks, 5 tackles for loss. A lack of production hasn’t scared off teams before but the drop off is a concern. His 2025 tape looks better than his production, but not dramatically so.
Is he an EDGE or a DT in the NFL? Some feel his future lies on the inside. There are worse scenarios than an EDGE/DT tweener settling at DT, but if the Eagles are drafting an EDGE because they need a dedicated EDGE.
