{"id":176204,"date":"2026-04-26T01:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176204\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:49:10","slug":"eagles-draft-qb-cole-payton-no-178-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176204\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles draft QB Cole Payton No. 178 overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was an Honorable Mention All-American and a finalist for the Walter Payton Award (FCS Heisman Trophy). He helped lead North Dakota State to a 12-1 record and the top seed in the FCS playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-2, 232-pound Payton joins an Eagles quarterback group of Jalen Hurts, Tanner McKee, and Andy Dalton.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Payton: &#8220;I&#8217;m just so excited to get to Philly and learn from a great room of quarterbacks and some great offensive minds and a great coaching staff that I&#8217;m excited to get to know better and just learn and grow. I think with my hard work and ability to want to improve every single day, I think it&#8217;ll work itself out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Nick Sirianni: &#8220;Really good with the ball in his hands in the quarterback run game. Made great decisions with the football, accurate passer. &#8230; But there&#8217;s some wild plays on his tape that are really impressive. I mean, I think I charted, like, four times he jumped over somebody or wrote down a bunch of times he&#8217;s the best athlete on the field. Big, strong, really excited about him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was an Honorable Mention All-American and a finalist for the Walter Payton Award (FCS Heisman Trophy). He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31803,1792,67345,2196,69,71,70,2197],"class_list":["post-176204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-all-news-archived","tag-cole-payton","tag-nfl-com-feature","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-team-roster-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176204","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=176204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}