Eagles - Eagles have a handful of scenarios for draft day

TREVOR LAWS remembers draft day a year ago as kind of an ordeal, actually.

"I remember a lot of waiting and waiting. Nervousness, tension and anxiety. Just wanting to know where I was going to be spending the next period of my life. It's crazy being in a position where you can be moved anywhere around the country for your job, and you don't know where you're going to go," Laws recalled this week. "Your mind is racing with the possibilities."

For Laws, a defensive tackle from Notre Dame, the wait lasted until the 47th pick, well into the second round, when the Eagles made their first selection of the day, after trading out of the first round for the second year in a row. Sitting by the phone at his parents' house in Apple Valley, Minn., a half-hour south of Minneapolis, Laws had no idea he was headed for Philadelphia, a place he'd never been.

"I probably talked to 28 teams throughout the process," Laws said. "The Eagles, I never had any contact with. I didn't talk with one representative from the organization. It was a big, big shock. When I got the phone call, on my phone it said 'Pennsylvania' - I thought it might be the Steelers. I was thinking 'Oh, no, man, I gotta learn the 3-4.' I picked up the phone and heard, 'Hey, Trevor, it's Coach Reid. Just wanted to know if you wanted to be an Eagle.' "

Subsequently, Laws learned that Eagles coach Andy Reid and Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis were close, and that Weis had talked to Reid about Laws more than once.

Sometime after 4 p.m. today - long after, unless the Eagles trade up from the 21st pick in the first round - some player somewhere will be the first this year to get that congratulatory call from Reid. Many mock drafts predict that player will be Georgia running back Knowshon Moreno, who plans to be hanging out in his grandmother's home in Belford, N.J., about a 90-minute drive from the NovaCare complex.

Certainly, the Eagles are expected to target a running back somewhere in the first three rounds, with Correll Buckhalter gone to Denver and Brian Westbrook turning 30 before the season starts. Connecticut's Donald Brown, Pittsburgh's LeSean McCoy and Liberty's Rashad Jennings are other possibilities, perhaps not in the first round. Ohio State's first-round rated Chris "Beanie" Wells probably doesn't fit the Birds' system.