The Eagles opened Rookie Camp on Thursday as the first-year players arrived in Philadelphia. The on-field action begins Friday, but the Eagles took care of some business first by signing the following four members of the 2025 Draft Class to their four-year rookie contracts: Smael Mondon Jr., Kyle McCord, Myles Hinton, and Antwaun Powell-Ryland.
LB Smael Mondon Jr.
Round 5, No. 161 overall
The linebacker led the National Champions with 76 tackles in 2022 en route to winning back-to-back titles.
Mondon had 57 tackles in 10 games to go along with three sacks in 2024 for the Bulldogs.
The Dallas, Georgia, native was a five-star recruit out of high school and was a top 30 overall prospect nationally. He played quarterback, running back, wide receiver, and linebacker at Paulding County High School.
Mondon accepted an invitation to the Senior Bowl during the draft process and has been used as an off-ball linebacker.
Assistant GM Alec Halaby's scouting report: "Surprised he was there. Multi-year starter on some great Georgia defenses. Really smart kid – they run a complex defense there and he understands it all. He's an analytical person and that fits with us because we ask our linebackers to solve problems on the field and he is someone who can do that. What you see from him in the pass game is that he can match tight ends and he can match running backs. He has that kind of movement skill and looseness and agility and speed and then in the run game he is someone who will come downhill and violently destroy a block. We do a really good job of teaching run destruction here and he's only going to get better with that. He processes the triangle well when he hits it and he is hitting it hard."
QB Kyle McCord
Round 6, No. 181 overall
The Eagles added depth to their quarterback room, selecting Kyle McCord with the 181st overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.
McCord, a Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, native, led the FBS with an ACC-record 4,779 passing yards during his senior season at Syracuse.
The 6-foot-3, 218-pound quarterback played three seasons at Ohio State before transferring to Syracuse, where he earned second-team All-ACC honors.
The selection will be a homecoming for McCord, who attended high school in Philadelphia at St. Joseph's Prep, where he was a five-star recruit.
Assistant GM Alec Halaby's scouting report: "Everyone knows about Kyle McCord if you follow college football. I love what he did at Syracuse in his one season there. You watch that Miami-Syracuse game and he is going head-to-head with Cam Ward (No. 1 overall draft pick to Tennessee) and that was a great game. It was real. He processes fast, he is accurate, he throws with anticipation, he has good arm talent, he sees the field really well. If you get people open, he will find them early and he will throw them open. You see the width of resilience that he went through – leaving Ohio State and then goes and elevates the Syracuse program. Really excited to have him here."
T Myles Hinton
Round 6, No. 191 overall
The Eagles added another tool for the offensive line, selecting tackle Myles Hinton with the 191st overall pick in the sixth round of the 2025 NFL Draft.
Hinton comes from Michigan, where he was an Honorable Mention All-Big Ten Conference in 2024. He was a part of the 2023 National Championship team, playing in 13 games.
Prior to his two years as a Wolverine, Hinton attended Stanford from 2020-22, where his unit won the Joe Moore Award as the top offensive line unit in college football.
The 6-foot-6, 323-pound tackle started 20 games at right tackle and 11 at left during his career. In 2024, he allowed one sack on 256 pass block snaps.
Hinton comes from an NFL family, as his father, Chris, was the No. 4 overall pick by the Broncos in 1983 and was a seven-time Pro Bowl selection as an offensive lineman. His brother, Christopher, played defensive line at Michigan and is currently with the Chargers.
Assistant GM Alec Halaby's scouting report: "There is a certain body type that we like at tackle and Myles fits that and for a man that size, he has really good foot and body quickness. I think he can adjust really well and there is a lot that he did in college that I think can translate over to the NFL game. They coached him well at Michigan and he was really effective at what he did. He fits the mold of a lot of things we like in our tackles."
OLB Antwaun Powell-Ryland
Round 6, No. 209 overall
The Eagles selected outside linebacker Antwaun Powell-Ryland with their 10th and final pick. No. 209 overall, in the sixth round of the 2025 NFL Draft.
Powell-Ryland has spent the last two seasons at Virginia Tech after transferring from Florida before the 2023 season.
In 2024, the 6-foot-2, 258-pounder started all 12 games he played, accumulating 43 total tackles and 16 sacks, which ranked third in FBS.
Powell-Ryland earned first-team All-ACC and Associated Press All-American third-team honors during his redshirt senior season with the Hokies.
The Portsmouth, Virginia, native was a four-star prospect out of Indian River High School, where he was selected to play in the Under Armour All-America Game.
Assistant GM Alec Halaby's scouting report: "Antwuan can rush. He can rush the passer. There are people that just know how to rush the passer, who know how to have a feel for the junction, who have a spacial awareness, that understand timing – when to hit it upfield, when to dive inside to the B gap, when to go down the middle – and he has all that. He didn't get that number of quarterback sacks (25.5 in his two seasons at Virginia Tech) by accident. Those sacks were earned. They came in a lot of different forms. They came in a lot of one-on-one situations, they came when he burnt an edge, when he bought an edge, he dove into the B gap, he rushed with power. Really good vision to the quarterback at the end of his rush, too. He can strike people and he has some ballast in the run game at 260-something pounds. What jumps off the tape when you look at him is that sack production and a guy who can see the quarterback and understands how to rush the passer and who knows how to beat tackles one-on-one, which is a very scarce thing in the league. We're always looking for that."
