Eagles need to find a cornerstone in this year’s NFL draft. It would help if it’s at cornerback.

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This is more of a theoretical argument than it is an argument for any one player. I’m not going to sit here and put gel in my hair and pretend that I’ve watched enough tape of Devon Witherspoon or Christian Gonzalez or Joey Porter Jr. to decide which of them fits the bill, or if any of them does. Besides, we are just now entering two of the most important months on the scouting calendar.

With Slay entering his 32-year-old season and James Bradberry hitting free agency while nearing 30, the Eagles have a situation at cornerback that can easily become one that sinks them. It takes two corners to tango in the modern NFL. The most recent example came last season. Robert Saleh and Joe Douglas may have saved their jobs last May when they drafted Sauce Gardner at No. 4 out of Cincinnati. Their seats were bound to get hot with Zach Wilson at quarterback and with a defensive head coach whose defense finished dead last in his first year at the helm. Last year, with Gardner shutting down half of the field and earning All-Pro honors as a rookie, the Jets finished fourth in points allowed. Somehow, they won seven games.

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