Hunt would help to solve a huge problem. He’s available (for now), he’s still on a rookie deal, he’s young and hasn’t shown himself to be injury prone, he’s an all-purpose RB who can run, catch, and pass protect, and he’d keep us from having to spend a draft pick on an RB. His very presence on the field would balance the offense again because he’s a threat defenses would have to game-plan for.
Unfortunately, given his off-field issues, I doubt the Eagles take a shot at him. Remember that Howie passed on Josh Gordon at a time when we had no receivers besides Agholor (in retrospect, he made the right choice there). Howie and Doug both prioritize the culture and bringing in the “right people”. Hunt doesn’t seem like the type of guy they go for, even if it would help them.
I honestly don’t know what they do at RB. I don’t pay attention to college football, so I don’t know who the stud RBs are or how likely it is that they fall to the point where we get a chance to draft them.
But I do know we have serious needs in several areas. JP is likely gone, Brooks is going to be gone for a while, and now Kelce is thinking of retirement. That means there’s a chance that three-fifths of the O-Line is gone next year and all we have are Wiz, Vaitai, and an untested Mailata, who’s never played a regular season game of football in his life. O-Line needs to be a huge priority in the draft.
Brandon Graham is going to free agency, Chris Long might retire, Jernigan might be gone, and who knows how Barnett is going to look coming off IR. The D-Line is losing a lot of critical pieces this upcoming year and we’ll only have Fletcher Cox and Michael Bennett. That’s another priority.
We also have holes at WR, so that’s an issue too. We need an explosive deep threat WR who can stretch the field and who defenses have to respect, like we had with Torrey Smith back in 2017. And then Agholor and Tate might both be gone. Don’t know what they’re doing with Mack Hollins. McLeod might be gone, so now the Safety position is an issue as well. And there’s also LB, if Hicks goes. On top of all that, the Eagles don’t have the cap space to go aggressive in Free Agency.
This is going to be a challenging offseason.
