The Eagles have announced a three-way trade that has netted them a 25-year old, playmaking linebacker, Ernie Sims, reports ESPN’s Adam Shefter.
Personally, I am actually pretty excited about this. (Excited enough to make a post about it during baseball season.) In 2006, the Birds were sitting at #14 in the draft, and I was really hoping that Sims would fall to them at that spot, but the Lions snapped him up at #9. That is the draft where the Eagles got Broderick Bunkley at #14 and traded up for Winston Justice at #39. Now, they get Sims, just entering his prime at a position at which the Eagles are incredibly weak right now, for a 5th and a 7th-rounder. Nicely done.
Sounds good to me. But don’t you mean Broderick Bunkley?
no, his brother bernard. that guy was awesome in college
I think the Eagles actually just gave up a 5th rounder, and not a 7th rounder as well, so even better, right? Also, I was a little curious why the Lions would give up a 25-year-old, former top-10 pick for a 5th rounder. From the Detroit Free Press:
“Sims, drafted to fit the weak side in the Tampa Two defense, struggled with a new defensive scheme and a shoulder injury early in 2009. When he got more comfortable and healthy, he started to play well. Then he suffered a hamstring injury and missed four games.
““That part of my career is over with; I’m ready for a new beginning,” Sims said. “In Detroit, we tried so many things, so many solutions, I just think it didn’t work. We had different head coaches, different defensive coordinators, even different GMs.””
So it sounds like he had a couple injuries and really didn’t fit their new defensive scheme. Seems like good news to me. Have to assume the Eagles see him as a fit in their defense.