{"id":245920,"date":"2026-04-25T07:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245920\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:28:19","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-miami-hurricanes-ot-markel-bell-selected-with-the-68th-pick-by-the-philadelphia-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245920\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft: Miami Hurricanes OT Markel Bell Selected with the 68th Pick by the Philadelphia Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another one! The Miami Hurricanes added another name to the 2026 NFL Draft class as OT\u00a0Markel Bell\u00a0was selected with the\u00a068th\u00a0overall pick in the third\u00a0round of the draft on Friday night by the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>. And Bell is a prospect who defies easy description.<\/p>\n

At 6\u20199\u2033 and 346 pounds with 36 3\/8-inch arms and an 87-inch wingspan, he is the kind of physical outlier that offensive line coaches dream about developing \u2013 a player whose measurements alone put him in rarified company in this draft class or any other.\u00a0 He came to Miami<\/a> as a developmental project from junior college (Holmes Community College) and grew into a legitimate Day 2 draft pick, one of the more striking development stories in Mario Cristobal\u2019s tenure in Coral Gables.\u00a0 For context on the sheer scale of the man: his 36-plus-inch arm length ranks among the longest of any offensive lineman drafted in the past decade.<\/p>\n

Multiple teams showed interest\u00a0to visit with Bell before draft night, a testament to how seriously the league took his physical profile. He is raw, yes.\u00a0 He is a work in progress, certainly.\u00a0 But he is also a six-foot-nine, 346-pound human being with the wingspan of a small aircraft and a foundation Mario Cristobal\u2019s staff built from the ground up.\u00a0 You can\u2019t teach size.<\/p>\n

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The Eagles have a developed offensive line led by Lane Johnson<\/a>, Tyler Steen<\/a>, Landon Dickerson<\/a>, Jordan Mailata<\/a>, and Cam Jurgens<\/a> so Bell will have a hard time competing for early work but should be a developmental project.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I projected this pick exactly!<\/p>\n

The right coaching staff will see a starting-caliber NFL tackle in three years.\u00a0 Congrats, Markel, and make Miami proud with the Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another one! The Miami Hurricanes added another name to the 2026 NFL Draft class as OT\u00a0Markel Bell\u00a0was selected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[108181,47,108176,6795,108180,108179,108177,58756,123,2431,125,5079,124,108175,119,46388,10828,108178],"class_list":["post-245920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-cam-jurgens","tag-fl","tag-holmes-community-college","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-jordan-mailata","tag-landon-dickerson","tag-lane-johnson","tag-markel-bell","tag-miami","tag-miami-gardens","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-miami-news","tag-national-championship-game-presented","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-tyler-steen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}