{"id":175406,"date":"2026-04-25T01:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:11:08","slug":"eagles-eli-stowers-picked-by-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175406\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles&#8217; Eli Stowers: Picked by Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/PHI\/philadelphia-eagles\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/425.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/PHI\/philadelphia-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eagles<\/a> selected <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/players\/26696120\/eli-stowers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stowers<\/a> in the second round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 54th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Stowers (6-foot-4, 239 pounds) began his college career as a distinguished quarterback recruit for Texas A&amp;M but couldn&#8217;t catch on at the position, leading to him converting to tight end. He would play tight end for New Mexico State (2023) and Vanderbilt (2024-2025), and he proved a quick study. By the time he transferred to the Commodores, it was clear that Stowers had standout natural pass-catching ability, both in the sense of ball skills and yardage after the catch. Though Stowers might not be a good blocker by tight end standards, his 4.51-second 40 at the combine is actually faster than fellow rookie and 20th overall Eagles draft pick Makai Lemon&#8217;s 4.53-second pro day 40. With a 45.5-inch vertical jump and 135-inch broad jump to go with that speed, Stowers is highly athletic even by wide receiver standards. Although he can&#8217;t play the same type of tight end as starter Dallas Goedert, it might be difficult for Philadelphia to keep Stowers off the field as time passes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles selected Stowers in the second round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 54th overall. Stowers (6-foot-4, 239&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78600,15831,69,4538,71,70],"class_list":["post-175406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-eli-stowers","tag-fantasy-football","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}