{"id":176123,"date":"2026-04-25T23:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:10:09","slug":"eagles-cole-wisniewski-picked-by-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176123\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles&#8217; Cole Wisniewski: 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\/3175312\/cole-wisniewski\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wisniewski<\/a> in the seventh round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 244th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Wisniewski probably is not a serious starting safety candidate at the NFL level but at 6-foot-3, 219 pounds the Texas Tech product has the build to crash hard against the run from the strong safety position. Wisniewski&#8217;s 2025 season with the Red Raiders was his sixth collegiate season after playing the prior five years at North Dakota State, mostly as a backup. The Eagles will probably be content if Wisniewski can simply play on special teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles selected Wisniewski in the seventh round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 244th overall. Wisniewski probably is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78838,15831,69,4538,71,70],"class_list":["post-176123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cole-wisniewski","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\/176123","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=176123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176123\/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=176123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}