After a win against the Dallas Cowboys, the Eagles lost four straight games, dropping the team from the playoff hunt.
The NFL and the American Football League (AFL) competed with each other for the same pool of college players each year.
[2] One of the Eagles' draft picks, Otis Taylor, was held in a motel and had to "escape" from his NFL advisor.
[3] The first player selected in the NFL draft was Tucker Frederickson, running back from Auburn, by the New York Giants.
He and the Jets went on to defeat the NFL's Baltimore Colts for the World Championship in Super Bowl III after the 1968 season.