'We were obsessed with getting you': Behind the scenes of the Eagles' pursuit of Cooper DeJean

Jeffrey Lurie took the phone from Nick Sirianni and offered a confession to Cooper DeJean. Finding a way to land DeJean kept the Eagles owner — and others —  awake on the night between the first and second rounds of the NFL Draft.

“I didn’t immediately sleep last night because this is what I wanted to have happen,” Lurie told the second-round pick after the Eagles traded in the second round to draft him, as documented in team footage. “We were obsessed with getting you today.”

That obsession, to use Lurie’s description, started shortly after the Eagles selected Quinyon Mitchell in the first round. Howie Roseman and Sirianni went downstairs from the draft room to the auditor...