a sudden shift this week in the NFL draft landscaped has opened the door for the Eagles and how Roseman might be readying a bold move up in round one for a prospect once considered off his board plus is the tide turning on Dallas Goddard's future in Philly my one insider says AJ Brown's name has been mentioned in a potential trade up into the top 10 kind of ridiculous i'm Thomas Mott this is the Thomas Smart Show okay so the NFL draft is 7 days away and there's been a ton of news dumps in the past 48 hours all outside of Philadelphia but all that have dramatic impacts on what goes down inside the Birds war room plus there's new changes in the Dallas Scutter Trade news also top 30 visit drama and how Roseman was press conference just a few days ago all of which matters in a big way and I'll get to those but the big talking points around the NFL say the past 48 hours is the meteoric rise of quarterback draft stock heading into basically this time next week when the draft opens and picks start flying first though quick PSA giving away this sign Nolan Smith Jordan Davis and Quinia Mitchell helmet to a subscriber right after the draft so make sure you guys are subscribed it's also showing still about 48% of you guys who watch my show are not subscribed so if you are subbed let me know down in the comments section how long you've been a subscriber of my show curious where you guys are at now why should we focus on quarterbacks in the draft when Philadelphia already has a brilliant one who just wants the world MVP and just yesterday was recently named Time Magazine's top 100 most influential people in 2025 well because two weeks ago there were only two guaranteed quarterbacks being mocked to be taken in round one leaving 30 other positions not named quarterback aka the ones the Eagles actually want to take ahead of the birds before pick 32 but fast forward to today and three more quarterbacks have started flirting with a first round selection including Miss's Jackson Dart who I think is the most obvious one here as both myself and the athletic Jordan Schultz think he will not fall out of round one so we go from two quarterbacks in round one to now three with Dart but two others are also emerging now as potential late first rounders or early second rounders in Alabama's Jaylen Milro and Louisville's Tyler Shuck both of which I personally don't think are worthy of being first round picks in this year's draft but clearly other NFL teams do with Tom Pelisero noting yesterday that Chuck has thrust himself into the next tier conversation with Shadore Jackson Dart and Jay Milro and many scouts and coaches rank him above at least one of the other most heritable players and mockdrafts are echoing this with Mel Kyper's recent ESPN mock draft having Dart going 29 of the Browns and Shuck vaultting all the way up to 34 of the Giants i mean just yesterday the Browns GM literally called Gilen Milro a quote rare physical talent maybe the only quarterback who's faster than Lamar Jackson and if all of this quarterback drama is actually true and we don't just see two quarterbacks in round one but three four or five it's going to completely shift how everybody views especially the latter part of night one of the NFL draft i mean that's five non-quarterback players who then shift back and get closer to Philadelphia and their ability to select them late in round one definitely something to keep an eye on now with that of course the questions of the Eagles trading up in round one to get one of these falling players remains kind of on everyone's mind but still obviously a mystery although I've seen plenty of mock drafts suggesting Philadelphia if they were to trade up could go get Marshall edge rusher Mike Green to which everyone in my comment section immediately goes "Thomas Howey Roseman's recent comments on Thomas Sha's show about players with a history of violence against women will never be scouted in Philadelphia mike Green is off the Eagles board." And I technically agree with that i did a whole show on Mike Green and the two separate allegations that didn't have police reports that are all a little bit confusing if you want to go ahead and check that one out but I do think how Roseman's recent press conference when he was asked about this exact topic has shed some light on a possibility of a player like Green still being on the Eagles draft board we have a process we have an objective process that that we use um we live in a country where you're innocent until proven guilty you know um and so we try to abide by the judicial process um but I think you know to get into kind of the details of what we do um you know that's part of our internal dynamics that I probably wouldn't want to get into but certainly um we try to not make it subjective is basically what I would say so that um we get in a situation where if we really like a player we can make excuses for that player so we try to have objective criteria when it comes to the issues that you're asking me about um but it it is important to us you know the people that we bring in this building and that uh we know we can win with really good people and we also know that that young people make mistakes in in other areas but that was one that was you know on my heart when I was talking about it and um something that um we believe in as an organization now of course I do think you can read how his comments there a bunch of different ways but I think having accusations in a player's past versus actual conviction is the difference and it's all going to come down to how the birds internally view Green as a prospect if they a like Green B think the accusations are false or don't really agree with them and C think he's an actual trade-up prospect to me it sounds like a guy like Mike Green kind of the most polarizing edge rusher in this year's draft class i mean number one in sacks in the FBS this past season really could be the guy to keep an eye for Philadelphia if he were to slip past the late teens and still be around there in the early 20s and just so we're clear about trading up in the NFL draft teams in Howie Rosen's position this year historically like to do it a bunch as the last 10 drafts teams with the final picks in round one have traded up or down five times with Eagles themselves moving up in the first round in four of their last six drafts still though the one flaw in my plan or How's plan to trade up in the draft for a Mike Green or a Nick Emman Worry or any of these other top firstround draft picks Philadelphia would have to move up to go ahead and get is the fact they've not brought any of them in for a top 30 visit as a final day to have prospects out to the Novaare Complex came and went this week and thanks to Nancy Deona we have the final list of all 25 players that visited Philly here and yes 25 visits means they're five visits short but we can still find out that they had somebody earlier on in the year couple of weeks ago because you need official reporting on that but as it stands right now we know of 25 players who have gone to Philadelphia for a top 30 visit and on that list of 25 are two notable exceptions the first of which the only person who actually has a legit first round grade that the Eagles brought in was Malai Starks they did not bring in Trey Amos no Jad Campbell obviously no Mike Green no Nick Emmani all these tradeup candidates I talked about have not gone on a call up to Philadelphia for a meeting and if you believe how Roseman once again this week he doubled down on the Birds draft philosophy of cherishing the chance to bring in 30 players who they actually really like and want to draft um I think that um we we've we have changed a little bit in and how we approach the top 30 and um like everything um it's an information gathering process for us the whole draft process is gathering information constantly gathering information um Nick and I are on the phone all the time talking to people that we know in college football trying to get to know these guys as well as we can so we can make good decisions um you know so for us it it's really just trying to fill in a lot of the blanks and the more we get to know people the more that we expose them um to not only us but people around us um the better we we get a feel for them so we think they're incredibly valuable for us you know obviously everyone's got their own way of looking at things um but at the same time we only have 30 of them so we got to do uh more work on a lot more guys in this draft than just the 30 guys that come here um but we like that process and and we really like involving everyone in the building you know we have a we have a really good building we have really good people who have good instincts on people good instincts in their field and being able to utilize those people in in our in our building see how they they operate uh with the people that they would have to be dealing with every day we think is a valuable part of the process and while sure they can still bring somebody in who they didn't bring in for a top 30 visit but it's been very rare in Roseman's history as the past couple of drafts the only second round pick for instance that didn't have a top 30 visit was Cam Jurgens back in 2022 it's possible but very rare and so not having these first round draft picks into Philadelphia is again a telltale sign to me the other sign though is the fact that we keep talking about tight end and yet tight end is missing from the top 30 visits philadelphia did not bring in a single tight end for a top 30 visit over the past month think about that i mean Dallas has been the trade news like every single week this year yet if Philadelphia was really preparing to ship their starting tight end out of Philadelphia and take one early in the draft wouldn't they at least met with a couple of them the past couple of weeks i mean Goddard was number three last season in receiving yards targets and touchdowns on this Spurs offense is how he really going to ship him away and give all those targets to a rookie plus the Ravens are now reportedly shopping Mark Andrews which adds further trade competition for Philadelphia as a team could get a cheaper price for Andrews leaving Philadelphia on the short end of a gotter trade and while obviously Philadelphia can still draft a tight end at some point in the draft who did not come for a top 30 visit it just seems to me like if they actually were serious about a tight end they would have brought him in for a top 30 visit do you guys not find that weird and when asked this exact question earlier this week how Roseman essentially said they want best available versus having to fill holes with their picks in the draft the way we look at the draft is it's a separate entity to anything else that's going on uh we got to make good decisions in the draft um based on who the players are that are available in the draft um we can't make up any positions and make them better than they're not we have to really um have a true process so uh it really doesn't affect us we try to do as much as we can at any position in free agency uh to try to make sure that we're not in a position where there is needs uh of course we're not a perfect team and there's always going to be areas that we're looking to improve and u you know honestly that's going to happen even uh the day after the draft we're going to continue to have areas that when we look at our depth chart we'll go man it would be great to add a player here so uh the player acquisition period uh this is a huge part of it but it's certainly not the end now of course don't take this the wrong way maybe me pointing out that zero tight ends have been brought in for a top 30 visit is my way of just convincing myself that Dallas Goddard isn't going to be traded because I want to keep him in Philly i mean just this afternoon Jordan Schultz dropped another updated report stating quote Eagles tight end Dallas remains a name to watch on the trade market as the draft approaches interested teams believe Philadelphia would be open to future picks if they don't receive 2025 draft capital gddard's in the final year of his deal and could be looking for a new contract as well so if Schultz is right then they do want to trade Dallas Gddard and he could be moved any day now this does remind me of a very similar situation to what happened with another aging Eagle a year prior in Hassan Reic reic wanted a bigger deal eagles said no teams didn't want to trade for him straight up and eventually Philadelphia landed a 2026 third rounder from the Jets instead of a 2025 third rounder if Connor ends up being traded there's a real possibility the pick is for 2026 and not for sometime next week and so I think the news this week in the entire NFL has turned out to be pretty darn good for Philadelphia a a chance to go ahead and keep Dallas GD as your tight end b more quarterbacks going in round one meaning better draft picks not named quarterback falling to Philadelphia at 32 and see if they want a guy like Mike Green who I think is probably as close to number one on their board as it could possibly get how Roseman might have said "Hey we're still interested in a guy like him despite the allegations." All of these things in my opinion are good for Philadelphia what's not good for the Eagles is perhaps the stupidest projected trade of the entire off seasonason posted just yesterday by Yahoo Sports's Kobe Labitz sorry if I butchered your name who said the Eagles should trade wait for this Devonte Smith and number 32 overall for Jaylen Ramsay and the Dolphins 13th overall draft pick because apparently the Eagles could use a quote veteran leader at corner let me just give Kobe a little bit of advice here make sure you check and see if Ramsay hated Fangio while he was in Miami because fact checked that's true and also make sure he's not to $25 million this season and is over the age of 30 personally I don't know about you guys but I am not trading away easily the best number two wide receiver in the NFL and definitely a top five wide receiver if he wasn't playing alongside AJ Brown in the entire league for a washedup expensive over the age diva quarterback honestly not sure why I brought this up but I got a good laugh at it and I thought you guys would as well which quickly leads me into the final story and I say final because I did not want this part anywhere near the beginning of my video because it's so ridiculous but disgraced Eagles media personality Howard Eskin put out a tweet today first off mentioning the aforementioned Dvonte Smith mock trade for Jaylen Ramsay but then added quote interesting story on possible Eagles traded Devonte Smith in many cases I just consider these reports social media fodder however I had heard AJ Brown's name in some trade talks with the Eagles possibly moving into the top 10 now of course I could spend the next five minutes explaining the pros and cons of trading AJ Brown and speculate who they could be targeting with this hypothetical trading at number 10 but one line shuts this entire rumor down from the start if the Eagles traded AJ Brown before June 1st aka during the NFL draft it would result in a dead salary cap hit of around $31.6 million for 2025 they traded him after June 1st he would have around 10.8 million in dead cap space from Brown in 2025 and 20.8 in dead cap space in 2026 so I'm not even going to speculate on this there is a 0% chance AJ Brown is traded next week and this rumor from an Eagles insider is an absolute nothing burger and the NFL draft is 7 days away and the craziest stat to finish today with is the fact that at this point 7 days away from night one is the latest we've ever seen zero trades pre-draft in round one in almost every single draft of the past 10 seasons there's been somebody trading picks before the NFL draft moving up or down in round one so far every single team at least in the first round still has their initial pick they started with so will we get a trade in the next seven days will we not keep an eye on it here i'll cover it thomas Mott it's going to be a crazy week next week this has been the Thomas M show