“I think that you have to be patient, one. You have to allow things to come to you. The chances that you’re trading up into the top 10, top 15, top 20 are slim. That’s hard to do. So you have to really kind of understand the strengths of the draft,” Roseman said. “You have to spend a lot of time being realistic about who you think you have an opportunity to get so you can spend a lot of time with them. I think that when we look back at those two drafts (2018 and 2023), when we were picking 32, and I think we were 30 that year because a pick was forfeited, they were two different examples because in that ’18 draft, we didn’t have a lot of picks. We had given them up. So we had an opportunity at the end of the first round to move back.

“But I think we got very fortunate that the guys that we had a lot of passion for, especially on the third day, were available, and we were able to target them and go get them. And we were fortunate that we had a couple of first-round picks when we came back in 2023, and we had good players at those positions, too.”

Now? The mock drafts have the Eagles doing any number of things because, making a blanket statement here, nobody truly knows what to expect from a team drafting No. 32 on Thursday night.

Roseman knows he’s going to have to cool his heels for at least the first few hours of the NFL Draft.

“It’s not my best quality, patience, but I think in this situation, understanding the reality of where we are in the draft,” he said, “what’s going to be available to us potentially, and making sure we know those guys backwards and forwards.”

Each year is separate unto itself, and there is no accurate way to predict what the Eagles might do. What happens in the first 10 picks probably won’t tell us a lot. Maybe not even in the first 15 or even 20 selections. After that? Perk up. Tune in.

That’s when it gets interesting for the World Champions, who will be watching at No. 32, allowing the NFL Draft to come to them.