Louis Riddick on the idea of the Eagles potentially passing on Ja’Marr Chase for Kyle Pitts
.@LRiddickESPN would fall out of his chair if the Eagles pass on Ja'Marr Chase at No. 6.@RealTannenbaum: "He's the best WR in this draft. … Ja'Marr Chase, if he had played, may have been the best football player. He'd be in that discussion with Trevor Lawrence." pic.twitter.com/wwovuhzA2P
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) March 5, 2021
Ja’Marr Chase has been out of sight for almost a year now, but the former LSU star wide receiver is still on the mind of draft experts and pundits when the discussion of the top pass catcher is broached.
During his Friday morning appearance on ESPN’s, ‘Get Up’, former Eagles pro personnel director and current Monday Night Football analyst Louis Riddick was asked about Philadelphia potentially taking Florida tight end Kyle Pitts at No. 6 overall.
Riddick spoke of “recency bias” when trying to break down NFL insider’s love affair with Pitts over Chase, who would have been the top wideout taken in the 2020 and 2021 NFL Draft.
Riddick made it clear that if the Eagles pass on Chase at No. 6 overall, fans would likely want to riot.
Chase won the 2019 Biletnikoff Award for nations’ top receiver, and the 6-foot-1, 200-pound stud wideout set a then-Southeastern Conference season record for yards receiving (1,780) and receiving touchdowns (20).
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