Watch: 3 Eagles draft picks, 3 draft-day tales

We recently sat down with three former Eagles draft picks -- Mike Quick, Zach Ertz, and Harold Carmichael -- and asked each to recall the day he was drafted.

Here are their tales.

Context: The Eagles drafted Quick in the first round, 20th overall, in 1982 from N.C. State, only after the Bills took Perry Tuttle, the Clemson wide receiver the Eagles wanted, at 19th overall. This happened because then-Eagles coach Dick Vermeil confided in a close friend, Bills coach Chuck Knox, that the Birds wanted Tuttle. Quick didn't know this at the time of the draft, but he eventually heard the whole story through NFL Films, which did a feature on the Eagles' draft.

Three wide receivers were drafted before Quick that year (Anthony Hancock 11th to Kansas City, Lindsay Scott 13th to New Orleans, and Tuttle). "I take a lot of pride in that there were three guys that went ahead of me in the draft that year, and that when it was all said and done, I had a much better career than all of those guys," Quick said. He made the Pro Bowl five times in the six seasons he was healthy enough to play in more than half the Eagles' games.

Context: The Eagles drafted Ertz in the second round, 35th overall, in 2013. He was the second tight end taken, behind Tyler Eifert, who went to Cincinnati at No. 21. After Ertz in the second round, the Cowboys took Gavin Escobar 47th overall and the 49ers took Vance McDonald 55th.  But along with Eifert, two third-round tight ends from that draft have made the Pro Bowl: Travis Kelce, taken 63rd overall, by Kansas City, and Jordan Reed, 85th by Washington.

Ertz was a little ticked when he didn't go in the first round, so when it concluded, then-fiancee (now wife) Julie Johnston, the USA women's soccer star, suggested they break from their normal eating habits. "Julie recommended that we go get some Krispy Kreme donuts to kind of ease the pain," he said. They did. He "vented … and realized the sun would come up tomorrow" for the second round.

Context: Carmichael was drafted by the Eagles in 1971 in the seventh round, 161st overall, and he became the franchise's all-time leader in receptions (589), receiving yards (8,978), receiving touchdowns (79) and total touchdowns (79). Born and raised in the Deep South during segregation, he played at historically black Southern University. He said of his first team meeting as an Eagle: "I sat there and I pretty much didn't hear what the head coach was saying, because I'd never been around white teammates before. I'd never played for a white coach, never been around that many white people before. I was in awe of that. It was different for me."

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