Biggest remaining needs for each NFC East team

Philadelphia Eagles – Power back

After winning a Super Bowl trophy without their starting quarterback, left tackle, middle linebacker, third-down back and top special teams players, and then improving their roster, there’s not much the Eagles are lacking in their personnel. Their offensive and defensive lines are ridiculous, they have weapons on the perimeter and inside, they get their first glimpses at cornerback Sidney Jones, who they drafted out of Washington coming off an Achilles surgery and they resigned linebacker Nigel Bradham, who I thought was a top ten off-the-ball linebacker last season.

The only people they lost that might actually hurt them are in their coaching staff, as former QB coach John DeFilippo was hired as the offensive coordinator of the Vikings and Frank Reich took the head coach vacancy with the Colts, once Josh McDaniels left them hanging high and dry. If I had to point out a position they could use some help at, it would be a power runner.

LeGarrette Blount is off to Detroit and the Eagles are loaded with smaller running backs. Jay Ajayi can run through some people and impose his will, but he is not the hammer Blount was for them, and behind him, they have Corey Clement, Wendell Smallwood, Darren Sproles and Donnel Pumphrey, who are all smaller, shiftier guys and will have their roles in the passing and return game.

The Eagles just signed Matt Jones, who I never understood the hype around to kind of give them a similar body, but if one guy on this roster can give them anything like that, it’s undrafted free agent Josh Adams in my opinion. The former Notre Dame back doesn’t show very good vision or creativity in the open field, but if you let him run downhill on gap-schemes, he has the speed and leg-drive to make an impact.