Looks like @Eagles might be coaching in Mobile.
— Jim Nagy (@JimNagy_SB) January 4, 2021
With the 2020 NFL regular season officially done, non-playoff participants can officially start preparing for the draft.
The process officially starts in Mobile, Alabama, where the ‘Reese’s Senior Bowl’ is annually played, featuring the nation’s top senior collegiate football players and NFL draft prospects on teams representing the National and American.
Only college seniors and fourth-year junior graduates are eligible for the game and it provides NFL teams, scouts, and executives with an early look at some potential future stars.
NFL coaching staffs coach the two Senior Bowl teams each year and are selected in cooperation with the league office.
It would normally be the teams with the lowest winning percentage that season usually get the first opportunity to coach in the game, but only if a majority of their staff – and head coach – are intact.
With the Jacksonville Jaguars and New York Jets both moving on from head coaches, that would leave Miami’s staff as an option at No. 3 thanks to their trade with the Texans for Laremy Tinsel.
Atlanta will have a new coaching staff at No. 4, while the Bengals coaching staff participated at the Senior Bowl in 2020.
If the Bengals are not repeating as participants, that would leave Doug Pederson and his Eagles staff as the next in line per Jim Nagy, the Executive Director of the Reese’s Senior Bowl.
The Senior Bowl provided a platform for Eagles rookie quarterback Jalen Hurts to perform and eventually landed with Philadelphia at No. 53 overall.
With the Eagles having holes on both sides of the ball and potentially set to have 10 picks in April’s draft, the Senior Bowl provides an early advantage for Philadelphia’s staff to start assessing who can help fix the lingering issues.
