With the 155th overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft, the Philadelphia Eagles selected Clemson linebacker Jeremiah Trotter, Jr., who is of course the son of former Eagles linebacker Jeremiah Trotter, Sr.
Trotter had good productivity both in 2022 and 2023. His career stats at Clemson:
| Jeremiah Trotter, Jr. | Tackles | Sacks | INT | FF |
| 2021 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 89 | 6.5 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023 | 88 | 5.5 | 2 | 2 |
Trotter is an instinctive, smart, hard-nosed linebacker with obviously good bloodlines. A highlight reel:
So why did he fall to the fifth round? Much like Nakobe Dean, Trotter is small (6'0, 228), and he doesn't have ideal athletic testing measurables.
Still, in the fifth round, Trotter comes at a pretty good bargain, even if his profile is similar in many ways to Dean's.
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