Philadelphia Eagles — Danny Watkins (2011):
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There are few things you ever want to be referred to as, when you’re a football player, and it goes doubly so as an offensive lineman. Among the worst of those is being labeled as “soft.” But that’s basically how the Philadelphia Eagles publicly described Danny Watkins, just over two years after taking him late in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft.
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After sitting for the majority of his first two seasons in the NFL, Eagles’ personnel executive Howie Roseman said Watkins lacked the “innate toughness” that prompted the team to select him in the draft in the first place.
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