PHILADELPHIA -- A wrap-up of the Philadelphia Eagles' draft:
This is and always will be the Carson Wentz draft for the Philadelphia Eagles, just as 1999 was the Donovan McNabb draft.
The Eagles got their franchise quarterback in '99, so no one talks much about linebacker Barry Gardner or guard Doug Brzezinski, who were also taken in that draft. The Eagles hope Isaac Seumalo can play left guard and running back Wendell Smallwood can find a role in the offense, but this draft will be evaluated on Wentz's career. Period.
Best move: Moving all the way up from No. 13 to No. 2 in the first round to take Wentz. Eagles executive vice president of football operations Howie Roseman is good at making trades, and that skill came up big for the Eagles this year.
A year ago, Chip Kelly was unable to move up from No. 20 overall to get a chance at drafting Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota. Roseman can't mind the chance to show up his former rival for front office power.
It started in March, when Roseman traded cornerback Byron Maxwell and linebacker Kiko Alonso to Miami to move up from No. 13 to No. 8 overall. He also traded running back DeMarco Murray to Tennessee to move up to the No. 2 pick in the fourth round.
Last week, Roseman traded the No. 8 pick, the fourth-round pick from Tennessee and three other picks to Cleveland to move up to No. 2. That whole process took a lot of acumen and a little luck.
Riskiest move: If trading up to No. 2 was the Eagles' best move, their riskiest was investing all that capital in an NCAA FCS-level quarterback.
The Eagles might be right that the 6-foot-5, 237-pound Wentz has the tools to be a franchise quarterback. But there is no doubt it was risky to trade three players and five draft picks for the chance to draft a guy who started only 23 games at North Dakota State.
Most surprising move: That would have to be the fifth-round selection of West Virginia's Smallwood. A lot of draft analysts had Smallwood going much later. That doesn't matter if the Eagles had confidence in the pick, but there are other worrisome signs.
A couple of years ago, Smallwood was arrested on charges of intimidating a witness in a murder case. The charges were dropped when Smallwood's friend pleaded guilty to the murder. On top of that, Smallwood quickly dropped his Twitter account Saturday right after being drafted. His timeline was full of immature and sometimes offensive tweets.
The Eagles have made a point of factoring in the character of players they acquire. Smallwood might turn out to be a terrific guy, but there are enough red flags to make his selection a surprise.
File it away: The Eagles' fourth pick of the draft, fifth-rounder Halapoulivaati Vaitai, is a name to remember, even if you can't spell it.
Third-round pick Seumalo has a chance to be the Eagles' starting left guard this season. Vaitai is unlikely to compete for a starting tackle job. Lane Johnson and Jason Peters hold those, and Vaitai is unlikely to dress for games, at least early in his rookie year.
But Vaitai is 6-foot-6, 320 pounds with a lot of athletic ability. Given time to work with line coach Jeff Stoutland, he could develop into a player in the next year or two -- about the time Peters is ready to retire.
Thumbs up: Time will tell, of course, whether the Eagles picked a Super Bowl-caliber quarterback in Wentz. But we're not about to evaluate this draft based on third-round pick Isaac Seumalo or anyone else. For now, all we can look at is what the Eagles did and why. They made three trades to move up from No. 13 to No. 8 and finally to No. 2. They identified and acquired a quarterback. It is the only way to compete for a Super Bowl, and the Eagles took their shot.